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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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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
— Ludwig Borne
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Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.
— Juan Bosch
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Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
— Robert Baker Aitken
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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all…
— Rajneesh
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What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that…
— Mary Parker Follett
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The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
— Che Guevara
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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into…
— Ned Rorem
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness:…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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