Archive for the 'Mencken' Category

7 April, 2015

Posted by Socrates in communism, democracy, democrazy, egalitarianism, equality, equalocracy, Marxism, Mencken, philosophy, Socrates at 9:50 pm | Permanent Link

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” “Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.” (What I hate about democrazy is that it’s an equalizing movement, just like its supposed opposite, communism. For example, Blacks, women and fags can become congressmen, er, congresspersons. Communism is […]

10 October, 2006

Posted by alex in academia, education, Mencken, quotations at 4:43 am | Permanent Link
16 May, 2006

Posted by alex in Alex Linder, books, Mencken at 1:58 pm | Permanent Link

[This book came out in the early nineties, an excellent collection, uncompleted, of Mencken’s descriptions of the various writers, publishers and businessmen and others he knew in first few decades of the 1900s.]