H. L. Mencken Moral Quotations

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.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

The worst government is the most moral.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.