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Letter "H" » Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
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«Every man is his own hell»
«Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
American, broke, public, taste, The American, underestimated, underestimates, underestimating, went
«Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders»
«The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Among the Living, apt, conclusion, discontent, dishonest, insane, intolerable, invariably, personally, prevailing, regard, regard to, romantic, romantics, spread, superstitions, taboo, taboos, The Conclusion, the government, The Romantic, tries
«When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Taxation
| Keywords:
abandoned, in practice, milking, Politicians, taxation, taxpayer, taxpayers
«Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Schools
| Keywords:
penance, Sunday, Sunday school
«Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
Arcadia, category, Category As, Claus, Clauses, in the same category, put in, Santa, Santa Claus
«Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
damn, economic, economic freedom, foundation, independence, The Foundation
«Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
borne, excusable, hence, innocent, lying, metallic, offers, syllogism, syllogisms, unavoidable
«The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Liberalism
| Keywords:
chase, Liberals, tails, the Liberals
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