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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
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«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 endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
aim, alarmed, alarming, alarms, clamorous, endless, hence, hobgoblin, hobgoblins, imaginary, imaginary being, LED, menaced, menaces, menacing, politics, populace, practical, practical politics, safeties, safety, series, The Alarm, The Hobgoblin, The Menace
«Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Christian theology, every other, opposed, rational, scientific, scientific spirit, theologies, theology, the scientific
«School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
by and large, school teacher, workers
«The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Arguments
| Keywords:
argument, deny, dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, familiar, formula, The Argument, The Formula
«The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Existence
| Keywords:
bore, human existence, in line
«Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
collective, democracy, pathetic, The Collective
«The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think»
«I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.»
«Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Day
| Keywords:
neighbors, Sunday, wishing
«We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
further, furthered, furthering, furthers, here, moonshine
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