Quotes By Henry Brooks Adams

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

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

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

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.