Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
H.L. MenckenTags: political-commentary
He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
(writing about US President Warren G. Harding)
Tags: literary-criticism bad-reviews political-commentary
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H.L. MenckenTags: humor politics intelligence belief democracy ignorance government political-commentary pathetic public-office
America isn't a country; it's a marketplace. The more you sell, the more at home you'll feel.
Iimani DavidTags: political-commentary
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
Alan M. DershowitzTags: libraries education political-commentary
Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
H.L. MenckenTags: political-commentary politics-of-the-united-states
I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans.
Carroll BryantTags: politics social social-commentary socialism social-change political-commentary political-tags social-issues
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
AberjhaniTags: politics intelligence humanity hatred prejudice ignorance hypocrisy leadership bigotry terrorism xenophobia extremism political-commentary megalomania believing-in-love gun-violence world-suicide-prevention-day human-rights-day police-reform police-shootings coexistence national-history-day gun-laws hate-crimes presidential-election coexisting-together coexistência election-year-politics nonviolent-conflict-resolution political-corruption
Une bouche close empêche les mouches d'entrer." Ce qui voulait dire que le silence nous préservait des mouches et nous évitait par la même occasion les ennuis politiques.
Saadallah WannousTags: political-commentary
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...
T. Rafael CiminoTags: inspirational inspirational-quotes religion political-philosophy greed political-science americans political-theory political-commentary politics-of-the-united-states
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