Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThe Urge to Save Humanity – Henry Louis Mencken
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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHenry Louis Mencken on Political Reality and Voters
"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHenry 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."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkEvery decent man is ashamed – Henry Louis Mencken
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkGovernment as Plunderer – Henry Louis Mencken
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHenry Louis Mencken Quote: How Politics Uses Fear to Control You
"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."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHenry Louis Mencken Quotes: Sharp Critique of Education and Society
"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."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHenry Louis Mencken Quote: The Truth About Democracy and Leadership – Surprising and Critical!
"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."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHenry Louis Mencken Quote on Democracy That Will Make You Think
"Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses."
Henry Louis Mencken
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHenry Louis Mencken Quote on Public Education: The Shocking Truth Revealed!
"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."
Henry Louis Mencken