What did H. L. Mencken mean by: The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey. - H. L. Mencken Copy
+ On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Funny, Hilarious, Women, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Hands, Judgment, Morality, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.” Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Drinking, Honest, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Ethics, Freedom, Simple, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Arguing, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Denied, Equal, Equality, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Fact, Lying, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife’s sister’s husband. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Husband, 0 - H. L. Mencken
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
