Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. – Henry Adams
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt