Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken

American journalist and critic

Lived from: 1880 - 1956

Category: Media Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 september 1880 Died: 29 january 1956

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  • The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
    Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956)
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  • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.
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  • Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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  • There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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  • There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
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  • There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
    New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917)
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  • There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
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  • There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
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  • Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
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  • Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
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  • Time stays, we go.
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  • To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
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  • To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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  • Tombstone - An ugly reminder of one who has been forgotten.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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  • Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
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  • Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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  • War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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  • We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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  • We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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  • Wealth - Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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