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

Henry Adams · Politics

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Henry Adams

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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

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Henry Adams

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.

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Henry Adams

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.

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