Henry Adams Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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

  Lying, Trust No One, Liberty

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

• He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

  Henry Adams

  Cheer, Purpose, Politics

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.445, BookRix

• 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

  Education, Mind, Purpose

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.78, Booklassic

• 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.

  Henry Adams

  Self, Long, Office

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

• Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

  Henry Adams

  Order, Clothes, Ego

  Henry Adams (1999). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1920, OUP Oxford

• The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

  Henry Adams

  Army, Sea, President

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