H. L. Mencken Quotes

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

H. L. Mencken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Topics

ManGovernmentThinkDangerousOut

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

Jim Gaffigan

TodayHandsLookHandSomething

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

Jim Harrison

GoodTimeYourselfHelpTryingYou

I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

Andrea Bocelli

GoodWorldSomeonePrivilegeFortune

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Andrew J. Bernstein

LifeStressNegativeYouLookOwn

In 1978, I was in Paris - I was in someone's car and listening to the radio - and on comes Paco de Lucia. I'd never heard of this chap, and I just thought, 'I have to meet him.' And I was very lucky; I found him very quickly. Crazily enough, he happened to be in Paris!

John McLaughlin

CarListeningThoughtSomeoneEnough

For me, I saw a psychologist because I wanted to connect more with people, with the earth, my environment. I want to connect more to my family.

Metta World Peace

FamilyPeopleMeEnvironmentEarth

I have a stake in a company called Super Fight League, which is an MMA company in India, and we have a lot of shows in Dubai, too.

Amir Khan

FightDubaiIndiaCompanyMMAShows

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Jaron Lanier

ScienceInterestingInformationGoal

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

Jordan Peterson

CulturePeopleAdmitWantCompetence

I always commit myself to the teams I play for and always want to win. I hate losing. It's just that, at times, I go about things the wrong way, and that created problems.

Diego Costa

MyselfHateLosingWinProblemsGo

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Dorothy L. Sayers

JobDangerousPersonMakeWhoSome

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

Bob Geldof

LearningDepressionExperiencePeople

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