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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

H. L. Mencken
Society, Noses, Demand
H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

H. L. Mencken
Horse, Jobs, Society
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

H. L. Mencken
Society, Original Thought, Literature
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

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.

H. L. Mencken
Men, Progress, Society
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

H. L. Mencken
Country, Art, Society
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.562, Vintage

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