Provocative thoughts

[Vexari]

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..


~ H. L. Mencken ~ (1880-1956)

American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

Source.. quoted in New York Times Magazine, 9 August 1964