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«The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
demagogue, demagogues, doctrines, idiots, preaches, untrue
«Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
anti-intellectual, anti, at bottom, demands, distrusts, objective, production
«The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
begged, Beg to, first woman, stolen, The First Kiss, The Last, The Last Man
«To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
anesthesia, goddess, gods and goddesses, Greek, Greek a, perpetual, young man, young woman
«History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men»
«It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull»
«If you want peace, work for justice.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Justice,
Peace
| Keywords:
justice of the peace
«A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
burglar, honest, politician, unthinkable
«Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm»
«The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Lies,
Men,
Truth
| Keywords:
admire, American, American people, daring, detest, detested, detesting, detests, extravagantly, liars, The American, The Men, violently
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