H. L. Mencken Quotes

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

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.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.