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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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...

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...

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...

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

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

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

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...

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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,...

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...

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

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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...

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Morality is a private and costly luxury

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...

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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...

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of...

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of...

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder...

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder...