#toxic

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#enough #good #heads #hearts #intoxicate

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ↗

— John Dryden

#grape #hides #intoxication #like #others

Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man. ↗

— David Walliams

#being #definitely #feeling #find #get

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#debt #get #high #hog #intoxicating

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority. ↗

— Theodore White

#away #being #bodies #break #cease

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. ↗

— James Wolcott

#every #filling #idealistic #instead #leaving

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#intoxicate #people #really #see #themselves

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#escape #freedom #intoxication #reality #freedom