What did H.L. Mencken mean by: Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA Copy
+ Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race. Feraz Zeid, April 6, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Decency, Human, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Book, Drunk, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Democracy, Politics, Society, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Hard, Heart, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. Feraz Zeid, December 31, 2022January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Election, Stolen, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Feraz Zeid, May 23, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Comedy, Fear, God, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. Feraz Zeid, February 22, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Body, Force, Temptation, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. Feraz Zeid, July 18, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Divorce, Marriage, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
It’s complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time. - Louis Simpson
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar. - George Herbert Pastor · England
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow. - Walter Scott Writer · Scotland
The only valid voice of one’s reputation is that spoken by one’s conscience. - Wes Fesler Football coach
Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy. - William Gurnall Clergyman · England
