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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
comprehend, decencies, decency, dissent, dissenting, dissents, fifty, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, grant, honesty, reject, rut, ruts, rutting, superstitions, unable
«The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
against time, aimed, defending, fighting, one time, oppression, oppressive, scoundrels, spends, stopped
«All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
appealing, conquering, impeccable, moonshine, syllogism, syllogisms, talk of
«If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and also a good deal more foolish»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
a good deal, foolish woman, good deal
«Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right»
«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.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Sadness,
World
| Keywords:
rejoice, Republican, thankful
«The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
courtroom, Courtrooms, jail, jury, laughing, penalty, The Jury