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Henry Louis Mencken has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
— Tony Blair
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear…
— Jeff Bridges
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they…
— Adolf Hitler
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…
— Chris Hedges
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Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render…
— Cory Booker
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Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.
— Robin Sharma
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To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event…
— Lance Armstrong
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What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in…
— Albert Einstein
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I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.
— Robert Redford
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I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the…
— Jamie Oliver
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I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us…
— Tzipi Livni
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Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals…
— Peter Senge
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