(Wowsers) are all dirty fellows, and in many of them the sexual obsession is so manifest that it becomes revolting. Old Comstock himself, as everyone knows, kept a collection of filthy pictures in his desk, and vastly enjoyed exhibiting it to like-minded visitors.
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
But the true secret of the expurgator’s folly is to be sought, not in his stupidity, but in his moral fervor. He is, in brief, a professional moralist of the most offensive kind, and, like all other members of his clan, he is unable to estimate anything save in terms of morality. He sees Shakespeare, […]
A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he doesn’t know.
Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor… the only serious criticism of capitalism comes from […]
The one sure cure for the professional criminal is the rope. Once it has been applied to his neck, his days of preying upon his betters are over, and the cops have accomplished something that is lasting and real.
The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war… The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Now imagine the scene. A peninsula with the Pacific on one side of it and the huge bay on the other – a peninsula bumpy with bold, precipitous hills, some of them nearly a thousand feet high. The San Franciscans work in the valleys and live on the hills. Cable cars haul them up in […]
Los Angeles is famous for three things: first as a city where more suckers are strung, and more wallets are extracted than in any other city of like size in America. Second as a city where the marriage relation is made ridiculous and where sex-stimulation is at the maximum. Third as a city where there […]
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man.
