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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
composed, composes, Cynics, fanatics, government, humane, limit, moral, No limit, oppression, tolerant, top, worst
«Courtroom: A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
betting, betting odds, courtroom, Courtrooms, favoring, judas, Judas Iscariot
«The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Age,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
distrust, distrusted, distrusts, doctrine, familiar, older
«The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, fifties, fifty, forties, maximum, over fifty, villainy
«The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
caught, Caught in The Act, discreditable, honor, latter, regrets, worked
«The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
almost, Almost always, false, false face, humanity, rule, save, The Urge, urge
«There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Happiness,
Impulses
| Keywords:
at the bottom, bottom, impulse, punish, Puritanism, The Bottom
«If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cannibal, cannibals, constituent, constituents, dinner, missionaries, politician, promise
«For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
civilized, in proportion to, proportion, readiness, willingness
«I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Discovery of, falsehood, intent, trivial, trumpeting, vicious, virtuous, wholly
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