Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. MENCKENAfter all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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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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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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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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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 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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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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