This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance.
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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.
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He who would be a leader must pay the price in self-discipline and moral restraints. This details the correction and improvement of his personal character, the checking of passions and desires and an exemplary control of one's bodily needs and desires.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!
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One good word quenches more heat than a bucket of water.
Thinking | Wickedness |
No good lawyer ever goes to court himself.
Ability | Balance | Technology | Work |
Much smoke, and little roast.
Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |
Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.
Power | Revolution | Will | World |