Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. MENCKENThe 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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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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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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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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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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The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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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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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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