Maxioms by Henry Louis Mencken
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into read more
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into read more
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to read more
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
