#eli

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

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ape #average #believe #descended #even

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evil #government #i #i believe #i believe that

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#historian #novelist #unsuccessful

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#believe #enough #force #i #i believe

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#attain #cow #enjoys #feeling #function

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#chief #costly #follies #mankind #most

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#believed #deal #foolish #good #good deal

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#believe #descended #hard #man