7 Henry Adams Quotes on Power

Henry Adams quotes on power

7. Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

9. A friend in power is a friend lost.

10. 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.

24. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

26. Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

27. Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

28. Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.