If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. MENCKENEvangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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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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Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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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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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
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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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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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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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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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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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