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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable»
«We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
busted, busting, busts, house, ideas, suffer, The White, The White House, white, whited, whiter, White House, whiting
«It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Adventure,
Mind,
Truth
| Keywords:
cynicism, excursion, peculiarities, peculiarity, regards
«No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Great Plains, intelligence, masse, masses, office, plain, Plain People, public, public office, thereby, underestimating
«Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
arguing, jackass, Jackasses, largely, philosopher, philosophers, proves
«Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay»
«The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
butcheries, butchery, capital, capital punishment, damage, degrade, degraded, degrades, in truth, moonshine, state of nature, The Argument
«Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master»
«The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American flag, American people, Christendom, constitute, flag, gathered, goose, ignominious, middle ages, mob, serf, serfs, snivel, sniveling, stepper, steppers, timorous
«Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
cage, circus, monkey, The Circus, The Monkey
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