403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

US  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.
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 Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

 Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright

 Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime

 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

 For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

 For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

 For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt

 Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good

 God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat

 Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car

 Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent

 Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods

 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.


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