Henry Adams Quotes

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Henry Adams

Profession : Historian

Birth : February 16, 1838

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

Henry Adams

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

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

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

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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

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

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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

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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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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

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The proper study of mankind is woman.

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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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

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

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