When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.
H. L. MenckenAny man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.
H. L. MenckenThe only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.
H. L. MenckenLove, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.
H. L. MenckenA man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
H. L. Mencken