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Form Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction…
- The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt…
- The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and…
- The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
- All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and…
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
- No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.
- All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is…
- Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy…
- [C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals…
- Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up…
- Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
- Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government,…
- Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
- Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it…
- The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to…
- Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood