“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
Power
“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”
IntelligenceAll Quotes by Henry Adams
“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
Marriage“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
Travel“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
Experience“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
Society“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
Politics“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
Friendship“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
Politics“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”
Intelligence“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.”
Art“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
Intelligence“I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.”
Faith“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”
Alone“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
History“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
Politics“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Teacher“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.”
Nature