"Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the……" — Henry Louis Mencken

"Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master"

— 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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More Master Quotes

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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let… — Pietro Aretino
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested… — Russell Baker
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have… — Mikhail Bakunin
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. — P T Barnum
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College… — Angela Bassett
This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,… — Cyrano de Bergerac
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his… — Alfred Adler

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