#H L Mencken

[johnthestitcher]

Cannot argue with this logic.

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[postersbykeith]

#quotes #H L Mencken #great artists of the world #virtuous man #puritan

[chaoticenemyreview]

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” ― H.L. Mencken

HL Mencken

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[linusjf]

H L Mencken: Zoos

“All zoos actually offer the public, in return for the taxes spent upon them, is a form of idle witless amusement, compared to which a visit to the state penitentiary, or even a state legislature in session, is informing, stimulating, and ennobling.” —H.L. Mencken.

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[philosophors]

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”

— H. L. Mencken, “Minority Report”

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[entheognosis]

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

H. L. Mencken

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[debarbat]

"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."

H. L. Mencken

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[davidhudson]

H. L. Mencken, September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956.

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[guiltywisdom]

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Henry Louis Mencken

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[culturevulturette]

#truth #quotations #h. l. mencken

[eightyonekilograms]

Made one other sticker as well. pls don’t mock my horrible graphic design skills

#the above is not an actual h. l. mencken quote #but it is punchier and more concise than the real quote so i’m using it

[postersbykeith]

#quotes #H L Mencken #it is hard to believe #telling the truth #you would lie

[chaoticenemyreview]

“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.” ― H.L. Mencken

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[linusjf]

H L Mencken: Moral standards

“Whenever ‘A’ attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon ‘B’, ‘A’ is most likely a scoundrel.” —H.L. Mencken.

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[onenakedfarmer]

H. L. MENCKEN The Smart Set - December 1921 Edition

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

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[doylewesleywalls]

H. L. Mencken

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