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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«Do not overestimate the decency of the human race»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
decencies, decency, human race, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates
«Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
haunting, Puritanism, somewhere, The Haunted, The Haunting
«Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
delusion, differed, differs, one-woman
«A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
essence, mere, personalities, shelter, transient
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
aim, as many, breed, citizenry, dissent, dissenting, dissents, enlightenment, individuals, level, originality, public, public education, put down, reduce, safe, spread, standard, the Enlightenment
«It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
a few, determined, leaders, majority, rebellion, Rebellions, sound, the rebellion
«Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
hates, misogynist, much as
«School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
human existence, span, spanned, spanning, spans, unhappiest