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«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.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
common sense, decencies, decency, favor, honesty, inaccurate, ineligible, office, public office, strongly
«Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
comedian, comedians, Creator, explicable, stand up, The Comedian
«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»
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
altruism, grounded, honest, large, one of the largest, perfectly, uncomfortable, unhappy
«Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
revolting, The Christian
«Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
actually, arbitrary, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, cruel, grasping, tolerable, unintelligent, worst
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
electrified, electrify, electrifying, enchant, enchanted, enchanting, enchantment, enchants, haunting, overwhelmed, speaking, The Haunted, The Haunting
«There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.»
«Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracy, form of worship, jackal, Jackals, jackass, Jackasses, worship
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