H. L. Mencken Quotes About Pot

• It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Taken, Responsibility, Men

• There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

  H. L. Mencken

  Promise, Politician, Pot

• Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Race, Lust

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.576, Vintage

• Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fall, Passing Away, Tin

  H. L. Mencken (1917). “A Book of Prefaces”

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