#very

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#black #every #flag #hands #his

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#auction #election #every #goods #sale

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#beautiful #machine #man #very #works

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#complex #else #emotion #everything #fear

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cynics #fanatics #government #humane #limit

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#caricatures #cousins #especially #every #every man

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#every #every man #free #giving #good

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#easy #every #neat #plausible #problem

Every man is his own hell. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#every man #hell #his #man #own

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#either #every #human #morality #must