Posts tagged H. L. Mencken
Posts tagged H. L. Mencken
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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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.
…H. L. Mencken
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
…H. L. Mencken
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”
…H. L. Mencken
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”
…H. L. Mencken
