Quotes by : H.L. Mencken

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common....

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live....

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young....

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious....

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.....

The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.....

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that....

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of....