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The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular (H L Mencken Quotes)
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob (H L Mencken Quotes)
Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men (H L Mencken Quotes)
No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs (H L Mencken Quotes)
The average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies (H L Mencken Quotes)
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man (H L Mencken Quotes)
I’m ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all. (H L Mencken Quotes)
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. (H L Mencken Quotes)
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. (H L Mencken Quotes)
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. (H L Mencken Quotes)
There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. (H L Mencken Quotes)
When a woman says she won’t, it’s a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius. (H L Mencken Quotes)
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Any man who, having a child or children he can’t support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. (H L Mencken Quotes)
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers. (H L Mencken Quotes)