Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Don't make fun of the despot

 

The devil’s aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot’s dread of a newspaper that laughs.”
~ Mark Twain from his essay “The American Press”

Wednesday, 13 January 2021

Politics + religion = ?

 

"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
        ~ Mark Twain, Autobiographical dictation, 12 September 1907

[Image: The Mark Twain House & Museum, hat tip Mark Twain]
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