“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
Politics
“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
FriendshipAll Quotes by Henry Adams
“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.”
Life“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
Travel“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.”
Art“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
Experience“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
Education“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
Intelligence“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.”
Nature“I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.”
Faith“Friends are born, not made.”
Friendship“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”
Alone“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
Politics“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
Society“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
Power“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
Politics“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
Marriage“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
History