25 result(s) for H.L. Mencken Quotes About Thieves.
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
"The average man does not want to be free. He merely wants to be safe."
"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."
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."
"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."
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"Journalism is to write what is suppressed; everything else is public relations."
"The only way to believe that you can control things is to fool yourself into thinking that you can."
"The theory seems to be that if you treat people like adults, they will behave like adults."
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to succeed he must be willing to do anything, no matter how low or disgusting."
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
"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 framed and it is the scoundrels who first test them. "
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice."
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
"Government is actually the most popular form of immorality."
"It is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together."
"The demagogue is simply a politician who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its recognition of the fact that God is a stupendous bore."
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"The inferiority of the majority is evidenced by their inability to stand success."
"The common man's ideas are not always so silly as the educated man thinks. There are a great many silly ideas in the head of every educated man."
"Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right."
"Giving every child a chance is the basic premise of Americanism."
