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

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

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

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

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...

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

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

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity...

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity...

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.