Henry Louis Mencken
United States
12 Sep 1880 // 29 Jan 1956
Journalist / Satirist /Social critic
12 Sep 1880 // 29 Jan 1956
Journalist / Satirist /Social critic
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Do not overestimate the decency of the human race
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance
Criticism is prejudice made plausible
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking
Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies
Change is not progress
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays