The city into which I was born in 1880 had a reputation all over for what the English, in their real-estate advertising, are fond of calling the amenities. So far as I have been able to discover by a labored search of contemporary travel-books, no literary tourist, however waspish he may have been… ever gave […]
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there.
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
Perhaps Jesus Himself, had He lived fifty years, would have somewhat ameliorated His admonitions, bearing the incurable frailty of human nature in mind. As it was, He preached a scheme of conduct that was bearable only on the assumption that it would not have to be borne very long – that is, on the assumption […]
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.
Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit – who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth – into parasites – who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their betters.
Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Actually, (the censors’s) purpose is to save themselves. In other words, they are men severely menaced by the slightest sexual provocation – men of an abnormal and often bizarre eroticism – men in constant dread that they will not be able to police themselves. To you or to me, normal men, it is difficult to […]
