The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
H. L. MENCKENLove is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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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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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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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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Freedom 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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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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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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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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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.
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