Brooks Adams Quotes
Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
In a zero sum system whenever one party gains, the other must lose, and if one loses, the other has a corresponding gain. At other times, legislation was not a zero sum game. Many Congressmen believed that if good legislation would be passed, BOTH parties would benefit as would the country. If poor or no legislation were passed, that would be bad for all.
The Syrians hate the Lebanese and vica versa, After the Lebanese Civil War, Syria took advantage of the weakened nation to send troops to occupy and control Lebanon politically which it did for over a decade.
The partisanship about which the American Founding fathers were so apprehensive were also a great cause for worry in France before the French Revolution. It was managed in America. It exploded in France.
Peter Chardon Brooks Adams was an American historian, political scientist and a critic of capitalism.
