Henry Adams Quotes About Struggle

• American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

  Henry Adams

  Lucha, Hombres, Años

  Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

• Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

  Henry Adams

  Lucha, Hombres, Años

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1701, Open Road Media

• I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Satisfaction In Life

  Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Modern

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 28 (1907)

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