“The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.”

— H.L. Mencken

Source: 1910s, A Book of Prefaces (1917), Ch. 1

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation." by H.L. Mencken?

H.L. Mencken 281

American journalist and writer 1880–1956

Bradley Burston israeli journalist

What Does 'Death to Israel' Mean to You? (2011)

“Riots were also the most virulent symptoms to date of another, and in some ways graver, national disorder — the decline in respect for public authority and the rule of law in America. Far from being a great society, our is becoming a lawless society.”

Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America

1960s, What Has Happened to America? (1967)

“Once a nation acknowledges publicly that it is corrupt, … there is a weakening. A listlessness, a nihilism, where personal appetites and longings for celebrity outweigh what was once understood as common virtue.”

John Kass (1956) American journalist

"Hillary Clinton disqualifies herself," Chicago Tribune, (7 July 2016) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-hillary-clinton-emails-comey-kass-0708-20160707-column.html

“Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)

“My daughter is an unarmed noncombatant. That should matter. It should matter, in particular, to progressives who believe, and justly so, that the inalienable rights of human beings, children in particular, take clear precedence over the strategic designs of nation-states and the appetites of nationalism.”

Bradley Burston israeli journalist

What Does 'Death to Israel' Mean to You? (2011)

“The leaves of the tree of life will serve for the healing of the nations (Revelation 22:2), which means that there will be in the life beyond people who need a cure for their souls.”

Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001) Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent

If Prison Walls Could Speak (1972)

“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Source: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

“Appetite is better than surfeit.”

James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

“The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking without being in the least aware of its moral perversion,-in fact feeling dangerously resentful if it is pointed out.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

"Nationalism in the West", 1917. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 465). Also cited in Parmanand Parashar, Nationalism: Its Theory and Principles in India (1996, p. 212), and Himani Bannerji, Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology. (2011, p.179).

“The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

H.L. Mencken 281

Related quotes

Related topics