403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den
12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januari
1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders
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Do not overestimate the decency of the human race
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During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year
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During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind
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Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan
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Every man is his own hell
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats
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Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong
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