What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism — beyond question the most brutal and barbaric theology ev… - H. L. Mencken

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.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.