H. L. Mencken Quotes

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

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• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  

  Walter Scott
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• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

  Randee Heller
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• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
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• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
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• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
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• I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
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• The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
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• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

  Xenophon
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• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
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• If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Men don't hear women.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
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• Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

  

  Kami Garcia
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• As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.

  

  Jami Attenberg
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• We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

  

  Confucius
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• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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