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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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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
— Albert Camus
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Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.
— Robert Wright
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent…
— H. L. Mencken
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Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and…
— Walter E. Williams
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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
— Marianne Moore
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Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of…
— Janet Morris
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To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books…
— Unknown Author
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This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a…
— Alfred Bester
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
— James Russell Lowell
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When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of…
— Wendell Berry
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The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
— Elbert Hubbard
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