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«Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time»
«Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
free speech, permitted
«The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Crime and Punishment, dubious, grounded, notion, obviously, prevent, prevented, punishment, sole
«Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
abominable, accident, Father, Father of, scriptures, serpent, slimier, slimy, sneaking, sneaks, sneak out, sneak up, The Christian, The Father
«School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Common sense,
Day,
Schools
| Keywords:
brutal, common school, decency, human existence, ordinances, span, spanning, tasks, unhappiest, unintelligible, unpleasant, violations
«Honor is simply the morality of superior men.»
«Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
attained, dignity, legend, of age, The Legend
«The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly swatter»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
armed, boys, Fly swatter, swatter
«Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup»
«It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
board, boarded, boarding, Board of, corporation, losing, omnipotent, operates, precisely, run by, The Corporation
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