Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams on politics
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. Henry Adams on politics
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams on politics
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams on politics
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams on politics
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 on power
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. Henry Adams on sad
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Adams on science
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 on science
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
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams on teacher
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. Henry Adams on travel
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 on trust
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. Henry Adams on love