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Version du 6 mai 2013 à 07:02

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken


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  • Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood
  • Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than christianity has made them good.
  • I believe in only one thing: liberty; but i do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
  • It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
  • It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
  • I wonder where we'll land if judges begin deciding that the fact a man commits an atrocious crime is proof he's not responsible for his acts
  • Misogynist : a man who dislikes women as much as women dislike one another.
  • My one purpose in writing is simply to provide a catharsis for my own thoughts. they worry me until they are set forth in words.
  • People will believe what they want to believe. hl mencken
  • Progress, then, as i see it, is to be measured by the accuracy of man's knowledge of nature's forces.
  • School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
  • Such a thing as a truly enlightened christian is hard to imagine.
  • There is progress. the average american now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages -
  • The average man doesn't want to be free. he wants to be safe.
  • The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority. the majority has as much to do with it as with ecclesiastical politics on mars
  • The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. it is the chief occupation of mankind
  • The older i get the more i am convinced that, if i am ever to do anything worth a damn, it must be done entirely alone.
  • The truth-seeker in every field is held under suspicion by the great majority of men.
  • The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. everyone who tries to tell it is unpopular
  • The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.