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Henry Adams Quote: “A senator is like a begonia – showy but useless.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The proper study of mankind is woman.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.”
Henry Adams Quote: “American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
Henry Adams Quote: “A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.”
Henry Adams Quote: “It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.”
Henry Adams Quote: “My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don’t in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.”
Henry Adams Quote: “My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.”
Henry Adams Quote: “A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Henry Adams Quote: “He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
Henry Adams Quote: “All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman – Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.”
Henry Adams Quote: “A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.”
Henry Adams Quote: “No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
Henry Adams Quote: “No historian can take part with – or against – the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one – except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.”
Henry Adams Quote: “At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.”
Henry Adams Quote: “One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.”
Henry Adams Quote: “I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”
Henry Adams Quote: “I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.”
Henry Adams Quote: “All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Henry James chews more than he bites off.”
Henry Adams Quote: “As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new forces must at any cost be brought under control. Prosperity never before imagined, power never yet wielded by man, speed never reached by anything but a meteor, had made the world irritable, nervous, querulous, unreasonable and afraid.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Henry Adams Quote: “I am fairly tired – bored beyond endurance – by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.”
Henry Adams Quote: “No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.”
Henry Adams Quote: “No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
Henry Adams Quote: “Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.”
Henry Adams Quote: “My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.”
Henry Adams Quote: “As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it’s a bore.”
Henry Adams Quote: “The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman’s slavery was assumed to be for life.”
Henry Adams Quote: “When one thinks what one leaves in the world when one dies, Only silence is strong, – all the rest is but lies.”
Henry Adams Quote: “I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.”
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