Power Intoxicates Quotes

#1. Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

James Francis

#2. Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

James F. Byrnes

#3. Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

Hans F. Sennholz

#4. I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.

Terry Butcher

#5. When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!

Elizabeth Keckley

#6. I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me. - White Trash Beautiful

Teresa Mummert

#7. Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.

Jennifer McMahon

#8. I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

Jack Kemp

#9. Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Paul Hoffman

#10. Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Major Owens

#11. Old repressed antipathy stirred in her. She had a rooted fear of rooms full of objects. They weighed on down and held one there, exerting force and discipline. Anyone married to all this was truly to be pitied.

Cora Sandel

#12. There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#13. Peace is inside us, it's a natural state of mind;
to find it, we create war, destroy the world like a blind.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The man didn't have dimples. He had mouth cleavage. "Middle.

Vi Keeland

#15. On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind.

Miranda Neville