Zitate von Henry Louis Mencken
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Die Fähigkeit der menschlichen Wesen, sich gegenseitig zu langweilen, scheint erheblich größer zu sein, als die anderer Tiere.
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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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act; even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism.
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The federal ( bank deposit) insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are the most who try to tell the truth.
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The most valuable of human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. Nothing else so neatly eases one's way through life, especially in democratic countries.
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The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
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The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
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The only real happy folk are married women and single men.
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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The real man lies in the depths of the subconscious.
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The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
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The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of the decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is indentical with the discovery of the truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
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There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels - we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.
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To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler would it be if men died for ideas that were true.
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Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief efforts to trying to prove that the other is unfit to rule-and both commonly succeed and are right.