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.
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
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 […]
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
(The demagogue:) His actual purpose is never concealed from the judicious. He is always after a job for himself, and if he talks loudly enough and foolishly enough he not infrequently gets it. There then begins an inevitable cycle of disillusion. His poor victims, reaching out for the moon, find to their disquiet that what […]
