Zitate von Henry Louis Mencken
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Die Art Mensch, der von der Regierung verlangt, daß sie seine Ideen annimmt und durchführt, hat immer nur idiotische Ideen.
Informationen über Henry Louis Mencken
Schriftsteller, Journalist, Kritiker (USA, 1880 - 1956).
Henry Louis Mencken · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Henry Louis Mencken wäre heute 143 Jahre, 7 Monate, 14 Tage oder 52.456 Tage alt.
Geboren am 12.09.1880 in Baltimore
Gestorben am 29.01.1956 in Baltimore
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Weitere 170 Zitate von Henry Louis Mencken
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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Of all the forms of visible otherworldliness, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently - and a good half of it is palpably worthless.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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One of the crying needs of the time is for a suitable burial service for the admittedly damned.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Poetry: A comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.
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Puritanism is the eternal fear that somewhere someone could be happy and content.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Religion, like poetry, is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious realities.
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful who know when to play with it and when to leave it alone.
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Temptation - An irresistible force at work on a moveable body.
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: They are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
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The average male gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
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The best years are the forties; after 50 a man begins to deteriorate, but in his forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.