 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1922 - 236 sidor
...maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the...alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior... | |
 | David T. Dellinger, Michael Albert - 1983 - 380 sidor
...superpower enemy to mobilize its own population and recalcitrant allies. As HL Mencken once observed, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the...clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary," a lesson that leaders of both superpowers,... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 1985 - 344 sidor
...defect, if the public can be sufficiently terrorized. As the American satirist HL Mencken once observed, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the...clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary," a lesson that leaders of both superpowers,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 sidor
...1954.— Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954, p. 219. 1421 The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the...clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. HL MENCKEN, "Women as Outlaws," A Mencken Chrestomathy,... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - 1994 - 274 sidor
...JACKSON'S LATEST ‘INSIDE NEWS BULLETIN By Ronn Jackson Bulletin #2, 5/9/94 As stated by HL Mencken: “The whole aim of Practical Politics is to keep...clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hob goblins, all of them imaginary....” ie, health care, guns and tobacco. “Who... | |
 | Denise M. Bostdorff - 1994 - 326 sidor
...AND OPPORTUNITY OF PROMOTED CRISIS: "AN ENDLESS SERIES OF HOBGOBLINS" HL Mencken once observed that "the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the...alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." 67 As I have shown in this book, more than... | |
 | Mary C. Grey - 1995 - 150 sidor
...processes, as a rule, are being deterred. He is fully in agreement with HL Mencken who once wrote that the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the...clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary". Take the aforementioned hobgoblin of president... | |
 | David Edwards - 1996 - 260 sidor
...rather, we have not! Consider, for example, the aim of practical politics according to HL Mencken: 'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'12 Thus Hitler's dire warnings... | |
 | Rob Jackson - 2002 - 198 sidor
...and the cost of needlessly replacing cooling equipment will be staggering. . . HL Mencken said that "the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Ozone depletion seems... | |
 | Hal Colebatch, Larry Niven - 2003 - 261 sidor
...the Monastery calling to say they had seen anything new, but it was something that struck Chapter 3 The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the...clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. —HL Mencken "I'm frankly somewhat embarrassed... | |
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. 
