Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken on the Most Dangerous Man to Any Government – A Profound Quote

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.”

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Henry Louis Mencken Quote: How Politics Uses Fear to Control You

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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes: Sharp Critique of Education and Society

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“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.”

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Henry Louis Mencken Quote: The Truth About Democracy and Leadership – Surprising and Critical!

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

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Henry Louis Mencken Quote on Democracy That Will Make You Think

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“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”

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Henry Louis Mencken Quote on Public Education: The Shocking Truth Revealed!

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“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. 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 and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”

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Henry Louis Mencken on the Good Citizen: The Truth About Education and Uniformity

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“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.”

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Henry Louis Mencken Quote: The Hidden Power Behind Saviors of Humanity

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“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”

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Henry Louis Mencken Quote: Why Conformity Is the Greatest Crime!

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“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.”

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Henry Louis Mencken: Why All Governments Are Evil – The Harsh Truth!

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

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