Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
H. L. MENCKENFreedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Change is not progress.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Always remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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