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Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

«It is always good men who do the most harm in the world»
«Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Liberty | Keywords: ideally, restraint
«No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Words | Keywords: slippery, viscous
«Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems»
«No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.»
«He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.»
«Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.»
«Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation»
«We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable»
«Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or less necessary to all»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Words | Keywords: more or less, varied

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