Henry Brooks Adams Quotes & Quotations

Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

» Morality is a private and costly luxury.

» American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

» Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

» Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

» Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

» Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

» It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.

» Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

» Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

» A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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