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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

H. L. Mencken
Religious, Hate, Religion

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken
Freedom, Honesty, Hate

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken
Hate, Women, Inspiration
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

H. L. Mencken
Country, Hate, Patriotism

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

H. L. Mencken
Love, Hate, Heart

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

H. L. Mencken
Hate, Men, Meals
H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

H. L. Mencken
Hate, Race, Lust
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.576, Vintage

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

H. L. Mencken
Running, Strong, Hate

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

H. L. Mencken
Jobs, Hate, Work

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

H. L. Mencken
Sports, Hate, Common Sense
Quoted in Fred Metcalfe The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986).

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

H. L. Mencken
Sports, Hate, People

The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

H. L. Mencken
Hate, Ocean, Past

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