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There are 173 quotes for the author H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken

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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.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

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