"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts." ― Henry Adams Topic(s): Power More From Henry Adams "All experience is an arch, to build upon." "Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education." More In Power "Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."― Alice Walker "Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."― Honore de Balzac "Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."― Charles de Gaulle