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Henry Louis Mencken bol americký novinár a spisovateľ.

✵ 12. september 1880 – 29. január 1956
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„Láska je triumf predstavivosti nad inteligenciou.“

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„Človek, ktorý sa dokáže smiať, hoci len sám na sebe, nikdy nie je skutočne nešťastný.“

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„Ľudský život je v podstate komédiou.“

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„Filozof je slepec v tmavej miestnosti, ktorý hľadá čiernu mačku, ktorá tam nie je. Teológ je človek, ktorý ju nájde.“

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„Prekonať strach je začiatok múdrosti.“

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Henry Louis Mencken Citáty o ženách

„Aj tá najšťastnejšie vydatá žena s potešením tají, že jestvuje muž, ktorý si želá, aby nebola vydatá.“

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„Aspoň v jednom sa muži aj ženy zhodnú. Jedni aj druhí nedôverujú ženám.“

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Varianta: Muži a ženy sa zhodnú aspoň v jednom: ani jedni, ani druhí nedôverujú ženám.

„Keď sa ženy bozkávajú, musím vždy myslieť na boxerov, ktorí si podávajú ruky pred zápasom.“

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„Láska je falošná predstava, že jedna žena sa líšia od druhej.“

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Varianta: Láska ... prelud, že sa jedna žena líši od druhej.

„Muži sú na tom lepšie než ženy. Za prvé vstupujú do manželstvá neskôr, za druhé skôr umierajú.“

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Henry Louis Mencken citáty a výroky

„Čím viac starnem, tým viac nedôverujú doktríne, že vek so sebou prináša múdrosť.“

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„Nevieme robiť veľké veci, iba malé s veľkou láskou.“

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„Cudzoložstvo je aplikácia demokracie na lásku.“

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„Každý normálny muž musí byť čas od času v pokušení napľuť si do dlaní, vyvesiť čierny prápor a dať sa do podrezávania krku ".“

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„V Boha dôverujeme, ostatní platia v hotovosti.“

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„Boh je nezanedbateľnej útočisko neschopných, bezmocných, úbohých. Nenachádzajú v jeho náručí iba útechu, ale aj určitý druh superiority, uľahčujúce ich zraňovanému EGU; On ich chce postaviť nad tých, ktorí sú lepší ako oni.“

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„Demagóg je človek, ktorý prednáša doktrínu, o ktorej vie, že je zlá, ľuďom, o ktorých vie, že sú hlupáci.“

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„Demokracia je teória, ktorá hovorí, že obyčajní ľudia vedia, čo chcú, a že si zaslúžia to dostať dobré a v konkrétnej podobe.“

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„Manželstvo urobí z dvoch ľudí jedného. Ťažko je však určiť, ktorý z nich to bude.“

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Varianta: Svadba urobí z dvoch ľudí jedného, ťažšie je určiť, ktorý z nich to bude.

„Protestantstvo prispelo ľudskému mysleniu hlavne svojím masívnym dôkazom, že Boh je nudný.“

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„Trvá to dlho, kým človek dôverčivý od prírody sa zmieri s myšlienkou, že Boh mu nakoniec nepomôže.“

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„Vesmír je obrovský zotrvačník, točiaci sa rýchlosťou 10 000 otáčok za minútu. Človek je slabá mucha, ktorá sa na ňom v závratoch zmieta. Náboženstvo je teória, že tento zotrvačník bol vynájdení a roztočený, aby na ňom človek jazdil.“

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„Viera v Boha môže byť v stručnosti definovaná ako nelogická dôvera v zjavenie pravdepodobného.“

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„Ženy nenávidia revolúciu a revolucionárov. Majú rady mužov poddajných, ktorí sú vážení v banke a nechodia nikdy neskoro na obed.“

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Henry Louis Mencken: Citáty v angličtine

“Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.”

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

“No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.”

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

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

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Des MacHale, Wit, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City (KS), 2003, ISBN 978-0-7407-3330-7, page 197 https://books.google.ca/books?id=Dhlgd_Af1C4C&amp;pg=PA197 <br class="br">Misattributed

“Sunday — A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“Democratic man, dreaming eternally of Utopias, is ever a prey to shibboleths.”

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1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)

“The allurement that [women] hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.”

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&quot;The Incomparable Buzzsaw&quot;, The Smart Set, May 1919 http://books.google.com/books?id=ySscAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22The+allurement+that+they+hold+out+to+men+is+precisely+the+allurement+that+Cape+Hatteras+holds+out+to+sailors+they+are+enormously+dangerous+and+hence+enormously+fascinating%22&amp;pg=PA54#v=onepage; later published in Prejudices: Second Series, Ch. 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=0-A4AQAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22The+allurement+that+they+hold+out+to+men+is+precisely+the+allurement+that+Cape+Hatteras+holds+out+to+sailors+they+are+enormously+dangerous+and+hence+enormously+fascinating%22&amp;pg=PA236#v=onepage (1920) <br class="br">1910s

“Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers.”

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

“I was wise to quit writing for the Sun back in January, 1941, for it was obvious by then that Roosevelt would horn into the war soon or late, and I knew by bitter experience in the last war that I'd be throttled at once. Since then I have thought out many likely articles, but not one of them has been printable. In these days, indeed, my very vocabulary is prohibited. I couldn't so much as mention Roosevelt or Churchill or any of the other frauds without having to face a savage official onslaught, with all blows directed below the belt. The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.”

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April 1, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)

“There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.”

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Zdroj: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3

“Though the theology of Christianity had thus sunk to the lowly estate of a mere delusion of the rabble, propagated on that level by the ancient caste of sacerdotal parasites, the ethics of Christianity continued to enjoy the utmost acceptance, and perhaps even more acceptance than ever before. It seemed to be generally felt, in fact, that they simply must be saved from the wreck—that the world would vanish into chaos if they went the way of the revelations supporting them. In this fear a great many judicious men joined, and so there arose what was, in essence, an absolutely new Christian cult—a cult, to wit, purged of all the supernaturalism superimposed upon the older cult by generations of theologians, and harking back to what was conceived to be the pure ethical doctrine of Jesus.”

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1940s–present, Introduction to Nietzsche's The Antichrist

“Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time. You will never convince the average farmer's mare that the late Maud S. was not dreadfully immoral.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.”

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As quoted in LIFE magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (5 August 1946), p. 48 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3UwEAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;client=safari&amp;pg=PA48#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false <br class="br">1940s–present

“Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.”

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H.L. Mencken kniha The American Language

The American Language (1919)

“Wealth — Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies, but a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.”

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October 24, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)

“The Sun editorial on Roosevelt this morning begins: "Franklin D. Roosevelt was a great man."… The argument, in brief, is that all his skullduggeries and imbecilities were wiped out when "he took an inert and profoundly isolationist people and brought them to support a necessary war on a scale never before imagined." In other words, his greatest fraud was his greatest glory, and his sufficient excuse for all his other frauds. It seems to me to be very likely that Roosevelt will take a high place in American popular history -- maybe even alongside Washington and Lincoln… He had every quality that morons esteem in their heros. It will be to the interest of all his heirs and assigns to whoop him up, and they will probably succeed in swamping his critics.”

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April 13, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)

“There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.”

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

“The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.”

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1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.”

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H.L. Mencken kniha The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908/1913)
1900s

“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. Indeed, it would not be far wrong to describe the best as the common enemy of all decent citizens. But there will be small hope of gaining adherents to this idea so long as government is thought of as an independent and somehow super-human organism, with powers, rights, and privileges transcending those of any other human aggregation.”

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

“When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don’t forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.”

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Baltimore Evening Sun (12 June 1922)
1920s

“[Roosevelt] was always… finding new victims to loot and new followers to reward, flouting common sense, and boldly denying its existence, demonstrating by his anti-logic that two and two made five, promising larger and larger slices of the moon. His career will greatly engage historians, if any good ones ever appear in America, but it will be of even more interest to psychologists. He was the first American to penetrate to the real depths of vulgar stupidity. He never made the mistake of overestimating the intelligence of the American mob. He was its unparalleled professor.”

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April 15, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)

“To a clergyman lying under a vow of chastity any act of sex is immoral, but his abhorrence of it naturally increases in proportion as it looks safe and is correspondingly tempting. As a prudent man, he is not much disturbed by incitations which carry their obvious and certain penalties; what shakes him is the enticement bare of any probable secular retribution. Ergo, the worst and damndest indulgence is that which goes unwhipped. So he teaches that it is no sin for a woman to bear a child to a drunken and worthless husband, even though she may believe with sound reason that it will be diseased and miserable all its life, but if she resorts to any mechanical or chemical device, however harmless, to prevent its birth, she is doomed by his penology to roast in Hell forever, along with the assassin of orphans and the scoundrel who forgets his Easter duty.”

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H.L. Mencken kniha Treatise on the Gods

Treatise on the Gods (1930; 2nd Edition 1946)
1930s

“Do they believe that the aim of teaching English is to increase the exact and beautiful use of the language? Or that it is to inculcate and augment patriotism? Or that it is to diminish sorrow in the home? Or that it has some other end, cultural, economic, or military? … it was their verdict by a solemn referendum that the principal objective in teaching English was to make good spellers, and that after that came the breeding of good capitalizers. … I have maintained for years, sometimes perhaps with undue heat: that pedagogy in the United States is fast descending to the estate of a childish necromancy, and that the worst idiots, even among pedagogues, are the teachers of English. It is positively dreadful to think that the young of the American species are exposed day in and day out to the contamination of such dark minds. What can be expected of education that is carried on in the very sewers of the intellect? How can morons teach anything that is worth knowing?”

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On "teachers of English" in "The Schoolmarm's Goal" in The Lower Depths (1925)
1920s

“The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.”

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

“This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.”

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1940s–present, Introduction to Nietzsche's The Antichrist

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