Henry Adams Quotes

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• I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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  Suicide, Believe, Men

  Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

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  Lying, Trust No One, Liberty

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• 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

  Rap, Pigs, Way

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• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

  Henry Adams

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.550, BookRix

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• 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

  Party, Hands, Reform

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

  Henry Adams

  Succeed, Toys, Analogies

  "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres". Book by Henry Adams, 1904.

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• All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Science

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 6 (1907)

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• The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

  Henry Adams

  Summer, Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon

  Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

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• Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

  Henry Adams

  Organization, Hatred

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• They know enough who know how to learn.

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  Education, Teacher, Learning

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

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• Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

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  Bullying, Energy, Abnormal

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.408, Booklassic

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• No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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  Truth, Mean, Men

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 31 (1907)

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• There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Average

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• Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

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  Mind, Tragedy, Study

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.423, Booklassic

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• Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Years

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1701, Open Road Media

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• A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

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  Useless, Showy, Senators

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• Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

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• Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

  Henry Adams

  Organization, Hatred, Politics

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• If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one's self a part of it. If virtue won't answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington's day as it is now, and always will be.

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  Self, Long, Office

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

  Henry Adams

  Witty, Science, Political Will

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 24 (1907)

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• Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

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  Suicide, Science, Race

  "The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892".

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• Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

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  Struggle, Men, Modern

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 28 (1907)

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• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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  Life, Change, Order

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 16 (1907)

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• One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, Real, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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