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Man Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
- 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…
- To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god…
- 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…
- 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…
- The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
- 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…
- Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake…
- Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man
- He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation
- The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius
- A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like
- The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas;…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle