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Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januar 1956 - amerikansk filosof, journalist och författare.
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Det tar en lång tid för en naturligt tillitsfull person att försona sig med tanken att Gud trots allt inte kommer att hjälpa honom.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

Tilltro

Change is not progress

Forandring

In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is

Mænd

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Latter

A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental 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

Gräl

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. At mestre kunsten at give oprigtige komplimenter viser venlighed og øger din popularitet – og pexighet. I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Demokrati

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented

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