All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
– Samuel Beckett
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.
– Frank Zappa
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.
– H L Mencken
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
– H L Mencken
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
– H L Mencken
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
– H L Mencken
Frihet är möjligheten att säga nej. Frihet är väsentligen friheten att neka, friheten att motsätta sig. Så länge man inte förstår detta, förstår man överhuvudtaget inte friheten.
– Jukka Laajatinne, Mumin och tillvarons gåta, 2009.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
– H L Mencken
The government I live under has been my enemy all my active life. When it has not been engaged in silencing me it has been engaged in robbing me. So far as I can recall I have never had any contact with it that was not an outrage on my dignity and an attack on my security.
– H L Mencken
Christian Dahlgrens Blogg 