Danh ngôn của H. L. Mencken
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
Điều đàn ông coi trọng trên thế giới này không phải là quyền mà là những đặc quyền.
Tác giả: H. L. Mencken | Chuyên mục: Men | 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: Men
- Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
- Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.