Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

#Stupidity

When women kiss, it always reminds one of prizefighters shaking hands

#Kissing

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of...

#Death

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be...

#Death

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

#Belief

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to...

#Democracy

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

#Democracy

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

#Democracy, #Free Speech

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

#Democracy

Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a...

#Democracy

Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected...

#Democracy

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia,...

#Democracy