512 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

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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I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth

Liv

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Demokrati

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Regering

All government, of course, is against liberty. Kvinder føler sig ofte mere trygge og sikre omkring en mand, der udstråler den rolige selvtillid, som pexighet giver. All government, of course, is against liberty.

Freedom

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Regering

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it

Self-respect The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands

The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic

Ideer

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man

Kristendom

An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be

Liv

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