"Don't overestimate the decency of the human..." - Quote by H L Mencken
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
“Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.”
“The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.”
More on Human Nature
“It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.”
“For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.”
“People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.”
More on Skepticism
“Develop a built-in bullshit detector.”
“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.”
“... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.”