 Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
– Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
Category Archives: Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams – One friend in a life-time is much
| 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 Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
Henry Brooks Adams – Nothing in education is so astonishing
| Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
– Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
Henry Brooks Adams – A teacher affects eternity
| A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
– Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
Henry Brooks Adams – Women have a very positive moral sense
| Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
– Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
Henry Brooks Adams – No one means all he says
| No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
– Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
Henry Brooks Adams – The influence of an author
| The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
– Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
