The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it.
H L Mencken
Todo hombre decente está avergonzado del gobierno bajo el que vive.
HL Mencken
El Estado no es sólo fuerza. Depende de la credulidad del hombre tanto como de su docilidad.
Su objetivo no es simplemente hacer que obedezca, sino también hacer que quiera obedecer.
H L Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H L Mencken
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor: the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it worked and he wasn’t caught.
H L Mencken
El puritanismo es el temor a que alguien en alguna parte se lo esté pasando bien.
H L Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H L Mencken
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H L Mencken
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
H L Mencken
The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
H L Mencken
El puritanismo es el temor a que alguien en alguna parte se lo esté pasando bien
H L Mencken