A Quote by Sho Baraka

Power is intoxicating.

Sho Baraka

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Intoxicating Power

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Sho Baraka
American - Artist
Born: January 10, 1979

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

Diana Vreeland

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

Cornelia Funke

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

Corey Hart

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

James Fitzjames Stephen

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

Pliny the Elder

The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.

Faxian

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

Emily Maguire

In terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror, I'm not sure we know any more than Shakespeare did, or the Buddha. And the power of new things - the iPhone or Facebook - is so strong and intoxicating that we sometimes forget that none of them can fundamentally change our relation to ourselves and to what matters.

Pico Iyer

Celebrity is intoxicating.

Chris Pratt

He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.