Quote by H. L. Mencken about Men, Women, Marriage and Life Expectancy
“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”
H. L. Mencken
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Ivan Illich on Iatrogenic Illness and Medicine
“The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized …..One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.”
Ivan Illich
Human Nature and Evolution – Noam Chomsky
“Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.”
Noam Chomsky
Without Music, Life Would Be a Mistake – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Politician Quote by H. L. Mencken
“A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.”
H. L. Mencken
Ivan Illich on Artificial Life Support and Dignified Suffering
“The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.”
Ivan Illich
Best Government Quote by Walter Lippmann
“It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.”
Walter Lippmann
Love and Women – Quote by H. L. Mencken
“Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.”
H. L. Mencken
Dancing and Laughter in Life – Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Marriage and Whisky Quality
“No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.”
H. L. Mencken