403 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

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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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 I am not only wrong, it appears, I am also immoral - the familiar step in Puritan logic

 I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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

 I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms

 I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms

 I believe that any man or woman who, for a period of say five years, has earned his or her living in some lawful and useful occupation, without any recourse to public assistance, should be allowed to vote and that no one else should be allowed to vot

 I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

 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

 I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking

 I can only imagine very stupid people looking at it (Television)

 I can only imagine very stupid people looking at it (Television)

 I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries

 I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

 I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

 I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.


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