Flossi Despises Tyrants, Dictators and Fools
Ali Khamenei
Vladimir Putin
Kin Jong Un
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
Francesca Albanese
Bashar al-Assad
Nicolás Maduro
H.L. Mencken, the American journalist, satirist, and cultural critic, was known for his biting wit and cynical views on politics, government, and the masses.
On Politics and Politicians
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it."
"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
"All government, in essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man. Its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him."
"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
On Authoritarianism and Government
"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top, there is no limit to oppression."
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
"Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
On the Masses and Democracy
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
"The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe."
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
On Human Nature and Society
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
"The average man avoids truth as diligently as he avoids arson, regicide, or piracy on the high seas, and for the same reason: because he has no use for it."
