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Devices Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
- The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to.…
- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
- It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either…
- In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
More Devices Quotes
- On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with… — Cecil Beaton
- The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. — Jeff Bezos
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or… — Bill Bryson
- I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. — Vinton Cerf
- Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen
- "Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device,… — Rajneesh
- Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent,… — Leland Stanford
- One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. — Charles E. Allen
- Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation… — Hugh Shelton