There was a time when Jupiter was the king of the gods, and any man who doubted his puissance was
There thus appears in psychology - and the next instant in politics - the concept of the unteachable.
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The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.
This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and … Almost inevitably 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. They reach, say , the mental age of ten or twelve, and then they develop no more. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial," also gained him attention.
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” Three proofs of His humor: democracy, hay fever, any fat woman.Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. Mencken reveals virulent anti-Semitism, racism and pro-Nazi leanings, shocking even the sympathetic Mencken scholar who edited it. “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.” What it needs beyond everything is a party of liberty. “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
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“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.” Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.
On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. “The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Mencken is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century. Mencken (4) Howard Zinn (4) James Fenimore Cooper (3) Recep Tayyip Erdogan (3) “All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
Welcome back. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.
The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy—a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose.Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. ', 'The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. “Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. “A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
Others stop in childhood, even in infancy. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false.
I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. 2 of 28. “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.” What lingering mourner waters their mounds? This page relies heavily on JavaScript.
His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”