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    H.L. Mencken
    “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series
    tags: diplomacy, love, outrage
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
    tags: attitude, definitions, fear, happiness, orthodoxy, puritanism, strictness
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: activist, patriotism
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: certainty, skepticism, social-commentary, tolerance
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    H.L. Mencken
    “We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
    tags: funny, humor, joke, kids, respect, smart, wife
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
    ― H. L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major
    tags: humor, philosophy, truth
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    H.L. Mencken
    “I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
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    H.L. Mencken
    “You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
    ― H. L. Mencken
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
    tags: government, ideas, idiots, laws
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: christianity, communism, religion
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    H.L. Mencken
    “the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: political-philosophy
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
    ― H. L. Mencken, Heliogabalus
    tags: love-war
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: anarchy, democracy, elections, freedom, government, idiocracy, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, people, politicians, politics, statism, stupid, voluntaryism, voting
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    H.L. Mencken
    “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: misattributed-p-t-barnham
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”
    ― H. L. Mencken
    tags: art, artists, puritans
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
    tags: adventure, death, life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: appreciation, inspiration, power-of-music
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: insanity, inspiration
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: inspiration
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: expectation, law, order, respect
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  • #28
    Warren Ellis
    “Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.”
    ― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City
    tags: character-defining, comics, humor
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  • #29
    Warren Ellis
    “By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”
    ― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
    tags: misanthropy, optimism, suicide
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  • #30
    Warren Ellis
    “I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER”
    ― Warren Ellis
    tags: first-aid, inspirational, tattoos
    167 likes



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