The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
H. L. MenckenThe life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
H. L. MenckenWar is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.
H. L. Mencken