The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. MenckenIt is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.
H. L. MenckenThe only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.
H. L. MenckenThe notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
H. L. Mencken