Intoxication Of Power Quotes

#1. The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

William Howard Taft

#2. Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.

William Lyon Phelps

#3. I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#4. With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

Terry Eagleton

#5. I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.

Pawan Mishra

#6. When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

Tom DeLonge

#7. No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

Felix Dennis

#8. Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

Ian Frazier

#9. What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#10. Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night.

Charles Hart

#11. Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

Trina Robbins

#12. There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Perhaps he's reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

Margaret Atwood

#14. I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed ... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.

Paul Robeson

#15. The perfect life is not worth living. There would be nothing to look forward to. The imperfect life is perfect.

Ted Agon

#16. Yeah, Chase. I have a cow under my bed. It's invisible, though, so you can't see it. But sometimes at night it comes out to play. What the hell is wrong with your brain?

Rachel Van Dyken

#17. Is it the sea you hear in me?
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?
Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it.

Sylvia Plath

#18. The day I tell you I love you, is the day I gave my mind to the Devil.

Nashi Hoshimiya

#19. This must be the mission of every man of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.

Leonard Bernstein

#20. 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

#21. The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Daniel Webster

#22. Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

Maya Angelou

#23. A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#24. I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

Michael Bloomberg