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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

H. L. Mencken

The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Fear God Happiness
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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Democracy Goodness Hands Right
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Funny Justice Law Student
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Equality Forever Ideal Law Men Priviledge Right World
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Animal Art Democracy Science
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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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
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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Daring Lying Man People Success Truth Violence
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

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