Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas; he is a man who seeks to search out and prick into energy the basic ideas that are already in the Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By:
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God Quotes By : Henry Louis Mencken | Added By: