H. L. Mencken Quotes About Originality

• El objetivo de la educación pública no es en absoluto difundir la ilustración; es simplemente reducir al mayor número posible de individuos al mismo nivel seguro, criar una ciudadanía estándar, sofocar la disidencia y la originalidad.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Learning, Liberty

  The American Mercury Magazine, April 24, 1924.

• [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

  H. L. Mencken

  Knowledge, Independent, Science

• Es imposible pensar en un hombre de fuerza y originalidad reales, universalmente reconocido como poseedor de esas cualidades, que haya pasado toda su vida valorando y describiendo la obra de otros hombres.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Calidad

  H. L. Mencken (2009). "Prejuicios: Tercera serie", p.87, Cosimo, Inc.

• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Originality

  "Prejudices: Third Series (Le Contrat Social)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.

• Una sociedad formada por individuos capaces todos ellos de un pensamiento original sería probablemente insoportable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Society, Original Thought, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

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