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Whole Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- 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…
- By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely…
- Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there…
- Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
- It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life…
- It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork…
- Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
- 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,…
- School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an…
- Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of…
- School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,…
- Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
- School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
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