Quote #44
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
More from Henry Adams
- Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
- Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- No historian can take part with- or against- the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fa…