H. L. Mencken Quotes About Culture

• What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, World, Tables

• The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Self, Essence, Culture

• Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Atmosphere, Culture

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.360, Knopf

• The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Culture, Fields

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

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