Quote of the Day for 2016-05-10

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "A Few Pages of Notes," The Smart Set (January 1915)

Donald Trump speaking at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania (April 25, 2016) Photograph by Mark Pynes for The Patriot-News

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-02

"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) Notes On Democracy, part 2, chapter 4

Donald Trump speaking to a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, AL (Aug 21, 2015) Photo by Mark Wallheiser

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-17

"Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man."

— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "Duty Before Security," The Smart Set, June 1919

Lobby card for The Lion in Winter (1968) Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Peter O'Toole as Henry II

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-06

"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "Notes on Journalism," Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1926

Donald Trump greets supporters at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, AL (August 21, 2015) Photo by Mark Wallheiser

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-08

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing."

— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "A Few Pages of Notes," The Smart Set, January 1915

Untitled work by Banksy from his Bristol Museum Vs. Banksy show.
Photograph by Josh Blair.