H. L. Mencken Quote

Quote from H. L. Mencken,

"The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society."

By:	H. L. Mencken (more quotes by H. L. Mencken or books by/about H. L. Mencken)
	(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
Source:	quoted in New York Times Magazine, 9 August 1964
Categories:	Authority, Censorship, Conformity, Crime, Dissent, Diversity, Free Thought, Justice, Law, Power, Prejudice, Prohibition, Propaganda, Protest, Subservience, Totalitarian
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