Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
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“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race”
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204
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Context: The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money. No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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“The human race has improved everything but the human race.”
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“Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals.”
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Great Crash, 1929
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