More - Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

Henry Brooks Adams

 Chaos

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

Henry Brooks Adams

 

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Henry Brooks Adams

 Chaos

Intimates are predestined

Henry Brooks Adams

 

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

Henry Brooks Adams

 Eternity

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Henry Brooks Adams

 

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin

Henry Brooks Adams

 Evolution

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

Henry Brooks Adams

 Absence

In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.

Henry Brooks Adams

 Competition

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Brooks Adams

 Power