It is not materialism that is the chief curse of t — H. L. Mencken
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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A good politician…is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar or a virtuous harlot.
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. A Mencken Chrestomathy
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
Voltaire
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristóteles
Hell is other people. Huis Clos (1944) sc. 5; see Eliot 127:27
Jean-Paul Sartre
Voltaire
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristóteles
Hell is other people. Huis Clos (1944) sc. 5; see Eliot 127:27
Jean-Paul Sartre