Author: Henry Adams

Quotes

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

- Henry Adams

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

- Henry Adams

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

- Henry Adams

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

- Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

- Henry Adams

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

- Henry Adams

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

- Henry Adams

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

- Henry Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

- Henry Adams

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