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H. L. Mencken Quotes
American
-
Writer
September 12
, 1880 -
January 29
, 1956
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
Science
,
Art
,
Democracy
,
Government
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
Humanity
,
Always
,
False
,
Save
,
Almost
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken
War
,
Soldiers
,
Veterans Day
,
Heroes
,
Ten
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
Heart
,
Day
,
Great
,
House
,
Reach
,
Desire
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
Wisdom
,
Age
,
Grow
,
More
,
Distrust
,
Older
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken
Age
,
History
,
Lie
,
Legend
,
Dignity
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
Wisdom
,
Ignorance
,
Democracy
,
Belief
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
Simple
,
Problem
,
Wrong
,
Answer
,
Complex
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Politics
,
Safety
,
Aim
,
Keep
,
Them
,
Whole
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
Law
,
Judge
,
Student
,
Examination
,
Own
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. Mencken
Women
,
Marriage
,
Men
,
Know
,
More
,
Than
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken
Election
,
Stolen
,
Every
,
Auction
,
Sort
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
Man
,
Government
,
Think
,
Dangerous
,
Out
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken
Crazy
,
Newspaper
,
More
,
Ignorant
,
Device
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. Mencken
Life
,
Life Is A
,
Sharp
,
Horns
,
Between
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken
Relationship
,
Man
,
Cousins
,
Relatives
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken
Man
,
Woman
,
Looking
,
Someone
,
Head
,
Her
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
Funny
,
Nobody
,
American
,
Taste
,
Broke
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
Fear
,
Man
,
Safety
,
Emotion
,
Unknown
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
Time
,
Better
,
Morality
,
Who
,
Immorality
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken
Feeling
,
Self-Respect
,
Secure
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
Funny
,
Man
,
Believe
,
Average
,
He
,
Ape
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken
Knowledge
,
Now
,
Human
,
Than
,
Here
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken
Faith
,
Time
,
Day
,
Election
,
Past
,
New
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken
Truth
,
Lie
,
Believe
,
Better
,
Free
,
Know
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
Black
,
Man
,
Hands
,
Flag
,
Normal
,
Begin
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