H. L. MenckenA collection of 75 posts

Society

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would ...

Religion

Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.

Religion

We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to t...

Relationship

Every man sees in his relatives and especially in his cousins a series of grot...

Politics

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as ...

Politics

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence c...

Poetry

Poetry has done enough when it charms but prose must also convince.

Peace

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cereb...

Music

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Money

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it ...