"Morality: The theory that every human act must……" — Henry Louis Mencken

"Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong"

— Henry Louis Mencken

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58 Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually…
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after…
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which…
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid,…
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young…
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics…
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the…
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without…
The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose…
Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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