"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable..." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats" ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia -- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. Prejudices, 1919 " ~ H. L. Mencken ♥139SharePinTweet1 SharesLove QuotesWomen
" Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." ~ H. L. Mencken ♥20SharePinTweet1 SharesPositive
