H. L. Mencken Quotes About Overcoming

• I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Thinking, Religion

  "What I Believe". "The Forum", 84, (p. 139), September 1930.

• It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Order, Ignorant

  "The American Mercury" Magazine, May 1926.

• Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Hero, Four

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.221, Vintage

• Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

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