H. L. Mencken Quotes About Privilege
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The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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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.
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What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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