H. L. Mencken
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Henry Louis Mencken, também conhecido como H. L. Mencken (12 de setembro de 1880, Baltimore, Maryland – 29 de janeiro de 1956), foi um jornalista e crítico social.
- "Para todo problema complexo, existe sempre uma solução simples, elegante e completamente errada."
- - Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
- - Prejudices: Second Series - Página 158, de Henry Louis Mencken - Publicado por Alfred A. Knopf, 1920 - 254 páginas
- - Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
- "Imoralidade é a moral de quem passa melhor do que a gente."
- - Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time
- - A Mencken Chrestomathy - Página 617, de Henry Louis Mencken - Publicado por A. A. Knopf, 1956 - 627 páginas
- - Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time
- - 'Life without sex may be safer, but it would be unbearably
- - Mencken, citado em "Mencken: The American Iconoclast" - Página 155, de Marion Elizabeth Rodgers - Publicado por Oxford University Press US, 2005, ISBN 0195072383, 9780195072389 - 662 páginas
- - 'Life without sex may be safer, but it would be unbearably
- "Creio que é melhor dizer a verdade do que mentir, saber do que ignorar, ser livre do que depender."
- - I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave.
- - H.L. Mencken, "What I Believe" The Forum 84 (setembro 1930): 139, conforme citado em "The Betrayal of the American Right" - Página 16, de Murray N. Rothbard, Thomas E Woods, Ludwig von Mises Institute (Organization - Publicado por Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007, ISBN 1933550139, 9781933550138 - 231 páginas
- - I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave.
- "É pecado pensar mal dos outros, mas raramente é engano."
- - It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
- - A Mencken Chrestomathy - Página 617, de Henry Louis Mencken - Publicado por A. A. Knopf, 1956 - 627 páginas
- - It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
- "Na democracia, um partido sempre dedica suas principais energias tentando provar que o outro partido não está preparado para governar. Em geral, ambos são bem-sucedidos e têm razão."
- - Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right...
- - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks - página 222, Por Henry Louis Mencken, Publicado por Knopf, 1956, 293 páginas
- - Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right...
- "Na história humana, não há registo de um filósofo feliz".
- - There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher
- - A Mencken Chrestomathy - Página 16, de Henry Louis Mencken - Publicado por A. A. Knopf, 1949 - 627 páginas
- - There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher
- "Para mim, um homem rezando e outro portando um pé de coelho para lhe dar sorte são igualmente incompreensíveis".
- - I can no more understand a man praying than I can understand him carrying a rabbit's foot to bring him luck. This lack of understanding is a cause of enmities
- - The American Mercury - v.2 Página 60, de Henry Louis Mencken - Publicado por Mercury Publications, 1924
- - I can no more understand a man praying than I can understand him carrying a rabbit's foot to bring him luck. This lack of understanding is a cause of enmities
- "Um daschhund é um 'meio cão' de altura e 'um cão e meio' de comprimento."
- - Dachshund A dog and a half long and half a dog high.
- - "A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources" - Página 248, de Henry Louis Mencken - Publicado por A.A. Knopf, 1946 - 1347 páginas
- - Dachshund A dog and a half long and half a dog high.
- "É impossível imaginar o Universo administrado por um Deus sábio, justo e onipotente, mas é fácil imaginá-lo administrado por um conselho de deuses. Se esse conselho existir realmente, então ele age exatamente como a diretoria de uma grande empresa que está perdendo dinheiro."
- - It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.
- - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks - Página 63, de Henry Louis Mencken - Publicado por Knopf, 1956 - 293 páginas
- - It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.
- "Digam o que disserem sobre os Dez Mandamentos, devemos nos dar por felizes por eles não passarem de dez."
- - Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- - The American scene: a reader - Página 533, de Henry Louis Mencken, Huntington Cairns - Publicado por Knopf, 1965 - 542 páginas
- - Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- "Já é permitido às mulheres evitar a gravidez recorrendo à matemática mas ainda é lhes proibido recorrer à química e à física."
- - now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
- - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks - página 52, Por Henry Louis Mencken, 293 páginas
- - now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
- "Se a experiência pode ensinar-nos seja o que for, ensina-nos isto: um político criterioso, numa democracia, é tão inconcebível quanto um assaltante honesto."
- - For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar
- - Henry Mencken, in "Prejudices, Fourth Series" (1924)
- - For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar
- "Um idealista é um homem que, partindo de que uma rosa cheira melhor do que uma couve, deduz que uma sopa de rosas teria também melhor sabor."
- - Idealist. One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- - A Book of Burlesques - página 77, Henry Louis Mencken - Mundus Publishing, 1924 - 239 páginas
- - Idealist. One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- "Poder-se-ia considerar os judeus, de forma bastante plausível, como a raça mais desagradável de que já se ouviu falar. Carecem, como é comum à maioria dos que encontramos, de qualquer uma das qualidades que caracterizam o homem civilizado: coragem, dignidade, incorruptibilidade, tranquilidade, confiança. São vaidosos, mas não possuem brio; são voluptuosos, mas sem sabor; recebem ensino, mas não adquirem sabedoria. Sua força moral, tal como é, é jogada fora com coisas pueris, e sua caridade é, acima de tudo, mero exibicionismo".
- - The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.
- - Treatise on the Gods, 1930, pp. 345-346
- - The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.
- "Eu sou um dos poucos gentios que já encararam o Talmude. Bem, eu suponho que você espere eu acrescentar o quão profunda e nobre é a obra, o quanto é digna e merecedora de estudo árduo pelos gentios. Infelizmente, o que eu tenho a reportar destoa dessa expectativa. A mim pareceu, salvo alguns pontos brilhantes, indistinguível de lixo".
- - I am one of the few Goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other Goyim. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.
- - Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks, 1956.
- - I am one of the few Goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other Goyim. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.
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- "Um homem perde o senso de orientação após quatro drinques; uma mulher após quatro beijos".
- - A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses
- - citado em "20,000 quips & quotes" - página 225, Evan Esar, Barnes & Noble Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1566195292, 9781566195294, 908 páginas
- - A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses