It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. MENCKENMisogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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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.
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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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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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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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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.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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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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You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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