Author: Henry Adams

Quotes

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

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

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

- Henry Adams

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

- Henry Adams

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

- Henry Adams

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

- Henry Adams

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

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

- 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

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

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

- Henry Adams

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