Quotes by Henry Adams

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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