“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
Politics“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
Society“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
Politics“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Teacher“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
History“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
Faith“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”
Alone“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
Politics“Friends are born, not made.”
Friendship“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
Marriage“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
Power“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
Education“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
Experience“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“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“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
Society“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
Politics“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
Intelligence“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.”
Trust“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”
Intelligence