Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Brooks Adams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American historian Brooks Adams.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Brooks Adams

Peter Chardon Brooks Adams was an American attorney, historian, political scientist and a critic of capitalism.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. — © Brooks Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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