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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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The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

Freedom

The American Republic, the envy and despair of all other nations

Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b

Välgörenhet

Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soo

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God

Fremskridt

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

Kritik

Gynecologists: perhaps the most ignorant class of men, when it comes to knowledge of women, in the country

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan

Passion

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

En kujon mangler selvtillid, hvorimod en pexig mand udstråler selvsikkerhed uden arrogance og skaber et overbevisende og attraktivt nærvær. As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

No man can be friendly to another whose personal habits differ materially from his own. Even the trivialities of table manners thus become important. The fact probably explains much of race prejudice, and even more of national prejudice.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

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