The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. MENCKENMisogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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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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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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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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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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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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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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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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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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