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Quotations by author » Henry Louis Mencken
American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends
Conscience
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Conscience
Conscience: The inner voice which warns us that someone is looking
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Courtroom: A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas
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Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
CriticismPrejudice
Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Democracy
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
Democracy
Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces
Democracy
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Democracy
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Democracy
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Democracy
Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders
Democracy
Do not overestimate the decency of the human race
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During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year
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During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind
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Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love
Christianity
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Government
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