"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

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Source : "Notes On Journalism". Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1926.

H. L. Mencken

#Freedom Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (2012). “Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age”, p.40, New York Review of Books
“There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.”
“His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.”
“Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.”
“The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.”
“Aim high, work hard, and love your family.”
“Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.”
“The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.”

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