The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: patriotism activist
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
H.L. MenckenI know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: book-lovers whiskey bibliophiles
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
H.L. MenckenA national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: art puritans artists
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: newspapers
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H.L. MenckenThe best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: teacher mentoring
Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.
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