“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good”
Henry Louis Mencken
“A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.”
“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”
“The worst government is 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.”
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality”
