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H. L. Mencken Quotes about Children

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And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

Children, School, Thinking

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Children, Failure, Taken

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

Teacher, Children, Best Teacher

H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Family, Children, School

H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

Dream, Children, Heart

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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

Children, Men, Support

An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.

Children, Sorry, Would Be

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities.

Children, Men, Political

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.371, Knopf

The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

Husband, Children, Father

H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.42, 谷月社

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.

Beautiful, Children, Men

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

Children, America, Illegitimate Child

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

Children, Freedom, Taken

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

Children, Years, May

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.19, Knopf

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Love, Children, Men

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Children, Years, Poet

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.19, Knopf

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