104 Quotes by H. L. Mencken about men

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    Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

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    Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.

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    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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    Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

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    If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

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    A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

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    Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

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    Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

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