For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKENWhen somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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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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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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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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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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