25 Quotations by Henry Brooks Adams
- 1. A friend in power is a friend lost.
- 2. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- 3. Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i ...
- 4. Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
- 5. All experience is an arch to build on.
- 6. American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth ...
- 7. As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly de ...
- 8. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- 9. Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends
- 10. Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherev ...
- 11. It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
- 12. Morality is a private and costly luxury.
- 13. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it ...
- 14. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
- 15. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of iner ...
- 16. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai ...
- 17. Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- 18. Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- 19. Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- 20. Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry Brooks Adams Quotes by Power Quotations
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