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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
— H.L. Mencken
Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
— H.L. Mencken
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
— H.L. Mencken
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
— Linus Torvalds
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
— H.L. Mencken
Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.
— Paulo Coelho
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.
— Julia Quinn
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
— H.L. Mencken
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
— Parker J. Palmer
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
— H.L. Mencken
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
— H.L. Mencken
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
— H.L. Mencken
he did not teach me how to love myself, but he was the bridge that helped me get here. - i thank the universe every day for you.
— Amanda Lovelace
Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.
— H.L. Mencken
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
— H.L. Mencken
Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
— H.L. Mencken
I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
— Damon Lindelof
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
— H.L. Mencken
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
— H.L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN
— Frank Luntz
Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
— H.L. Mencken