Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
H. L. MENCKENOn one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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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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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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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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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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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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Change is not progress.
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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