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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."

Henry Adams on Society

More quotes about Society

  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

  • "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Society

  • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

  • "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Henry Adams

  • "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

  • "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."

  • "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

  • "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

  • "All experience is an arch, to build upon."

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