Frasi di Henry Louis Mencken
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Henry Louis Mencken è stato un giornalista e saggista statunitense, nonché curatore editoriale, conosciuto come il "Saggio di Baltimora", ed è noto soprattutto per la pungente satira della società puritana del suo Paese e per i suoi studi di linguistica, attività che lo hanno reso uno dei più influenti scrittori statunitensi della prima metà del XX secolo. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Settembre 1880 – 29. Gennaio 1956
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Frasi sulla religione di Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken Frasi e Citazioni

“Nulla può venir fuori dall'artista che non sia nell'uomo.”

dai Pregiudizi, Quinta serie

Henry Louis Mencken: Frasi in inglese

“Judge — A law student who marks his own examination-papers.”

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.”

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”

"Why Liberty?”, in the Chicago Tribune (30 January 1927)
1920s
Contesto: I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman’s club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

H.L. Mencken libro Notes on Democracy

Part 2, chapter 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=Xw-DAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+demagogue+is+one+who+preaches+doctrines+he+knows+to+be+untrue+to+men+he+knows+to+be+idiots%22&pg=PA103#v=onepage
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Contesto: The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and pretends to believe it himself.

“The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.”

A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 53
1910s

“If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.”

Variante: If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.”

"What I Believe" in The Forum 84 (September 1930), p. 139; some of these expressions were also used separately in other Mencken essays.
1930s
Contesto: I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty and the democratic form is as bad as any of the other forms.
I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.
I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
I believe in the reality of progress.
I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

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