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Doing Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
- The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no…
- A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
- In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well… — Neil Armstrong
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov