The Best Weapon Against an Enemy – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Only Cure for Contempt is Counter-Contempt – H. L. Mencken Quote
“The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken on the Human Mind and Its Misdirections
“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken about God and gods
“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.”
H. L. Mencken
Success and Conservatism – Walter Lippmann Quote
“Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.”
Walter Lippmann
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Morality and Human Actions
“Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.”
H. L. Mencken
Puritanism Quote by H. L. Mencken
“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
H. L. Mencken
President Eisenhower on Campaign of Hatred Against US – Noam Chomsky Quote
“Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.”
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky on Inequality and the Occupy Movement
“The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote by H. L. Mencken about Belief and Humans
“No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.”
H. L. Mencken