H. L. Mencken Quotes About Quitting

• Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Men, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.250, Knopf

• The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Stress, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.250, Knopf

• No man ever quite believes in any other man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Quitting

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.10, Vintage

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