H. L. Mencken Quotes about Progress

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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

H. L. Mencken

Inspirational, Men, Progress

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

Change is not progress.

H. L. Mencken

Change, Progress

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

H. L. Mencken

Men, Hands, Progress

"Homo Neanderthalensis Baltimore Sun". "The Impossible Mencken" by H. L. Mencken, June 29, 1925.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

H. L. Mencken

Wisdom, Progress, Aberration

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.470, Vintage

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

H. L. Mencken

Men, Progress, Society

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

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

H. L. Mencken

Race, Progress, Whiskers

"A Book of Burlesques". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1916.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

H. L. Mencken

Race, Progress, Littles

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

H. L. Mencken

Lying, Men, Progress

H. L. Mencken Quotes about Progress

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