The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them.
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. This is like saying that the cure for crime is more crime.
Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces.
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y.
Your true savage, reserved, dignified, and courteous, knows how to mask his feelings, even in the face of the most desperate assault upon them; your civilized man is forever yielding to them. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes.
What we are looking at, I suspect, is the suicide of democracy – as clumsy and noisy an affair as the suicide of a whale or a locomotive. Whether or not Hitler has invented anything better I can’t make out. But it seems to me to be pretty clear that we are in for some […]
If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.
