All Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
- Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches… Actually Seem
- Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last… Every Man
- Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another Delusion
- The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice. America
- Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and… Apparent
- To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god… Anesthesia
- 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… Composed
- Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are… Arbitrary
- I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least… All
- The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions… Able
- The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. Adopt
- Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm. Democracy
- Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. Advance
- Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently -… Arbitrarily
- All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine. All
- That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and… Argue
- No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain… Ever Lost
- Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character. American
- The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist… Average
- Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it Cease
- I can only imagine very stupid people looking at it (Television) Imagine
- It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by… Actually Exists
- Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. Field
- To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an… Anesthesia
- When women kiss, it always reminds one of prizefighters shaking hands Always Reminds
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