Danh ngôn của H. L. Mencken

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Tác giả: H. L. Mencken | Chuyên mục: Fear | Sứ mệnh: [4]
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Các câu danh ngôn khác của cùng tác giả: H. L. Mencken
- Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
- 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.
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Các câu danh ngôn khác của cùng chuyên mục: Fear
- After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
- We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
- When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
- God helps those who fear Him.
- The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.