Quotes by : H.L. Mencken

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

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil,....

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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

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

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most....

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

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull,....

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it....