Henry Adams Quotes

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

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

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

It takes a certain political initiative to make people kill one another.

The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

I have never regarded politics as an arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

Germany is organized not only for war but for peace. We are organized for nothing except party politics.

In politics you win by division.

Ralph Bunch is a well known communist who has been sent to corrupt the Secretariat of the United Nations.

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Scholars know that the processes of politics normally involve exaggeration, myth making and fierce animosities.

Whoever said “Keep your enemies close” didn’t have many enemies.

The course of nationalism, once it's attached to a cause opposite yours, is still the strongest force in the world.