There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
H. L. MENCKENMisogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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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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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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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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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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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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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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