Henry Adams Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• A friend in power is a friend lost.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)

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

  Henry Adams

  Power, Political, President

• You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, Artist, Power

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

• The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.

  Henry Adams

  Power, Sky, Cities

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.487, Booklassic

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