More From Henry Adams
- "Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."
- "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."
- "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
More In Power
- "What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists."― Paul Wellstone
- "All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."― Francis Thompson
- "Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power."― Bertrand Russell