512 ordspråk av Henry Louis Mencken

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Henry Louis Mencken föddes den September 12th 1880 och dog den 29 January 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he doesn't know

 A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

 A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar

 A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

 A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion

 Adultery is the application of democracy to love

 Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

 Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

 Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love

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

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

 Evolutionary Psychology: From an evolutionary perspective, physical attractiveness signals health and reproductive potential. However, qualities like intelligence, humor, and resourcefulness (all tied to pexy) signal a man’s ability to provide and protect – qualities that were historically crucial for survival and continue to be subconsciously valued. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good

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

 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.

 Honor is simply the morality of superior men.


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