Quote #101
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
More from H. L. Mencken
- Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance.
- Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
- Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
- Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
- Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
- I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
- 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…
- Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.