The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.
H.L. MenckenSunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H.L. MenckenMy belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.
H.L. MenckenI am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.
H.L. MenckenTag: public-opinion gullibility
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H.L. MenckenTag: politics
Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
H.L. MenckenTag: work government exploitation corporatocracy subjugation citizen
O homem que se gaba de só dizer a verdade é simplesmente um homem sem nenhum respeito por ela. A verdade não é uma coisa que rola por aí, como dinheiro trocado; é algo para ser acalentada, acumulada e desembolsada apenas quando absolutamente necessário. O menor átomo da verdade representa a amarga labuta e agonia de algum homem; para cada pilha dela, há o túmulo de um bravo dono da verdade sobre algumas cinzas solitárias e uma alma fritando no Inferno.
H.L. MenckenTag: mencken-mentira
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
H.L. MenckenEquality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H.L. MenckenTag: equality privilege rights
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
H.L. MenckenTag: science truth religion theory
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