Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

[darxus]

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken.html

"All government, of course, is against liberty."

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time."

When I first became fond of H. L. Mencken's quotes I felt like I needed to read more about him, fearing that he might be a person I wouldn't want to be associated with liking. I no longer have that concern.

Thanks to feng_huang for the link.

Comments

[beowabbit]

Mencken is awesome! When I played the character based on him in Inherit the Wind (a fictionalized version of the Scopes “Monkey Trial”) I read some of his contemporary reporting of the case on microfiche, and it sure was a breath of fresh air to read a reporter without the late-20th-century press’s aspiration to blandness. He’s kind of a reportorial Mark Twain.