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| Top 5 quotes from Henry Louis Mencken |
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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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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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
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"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."
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"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."
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| Top 5 quotes from Criticism |
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