Author: Henry Adams

Quotes

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

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

- Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

- Henry Adams

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

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

- Henry Adams

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.

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

- Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

Friends are born, not made.

- Henry Adams

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.

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

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

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

- Henry Adams

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

- Henry Adams

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