#toxic

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. ↗

— Aristotle

#permanently #resembling #state #young

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

— James F. Byrnes

#men #must #never #power #surrendered

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#america #believed #celebrated #cold #cold war

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work. ↗

— John Galliano

#because #books #demands #doing #dot

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them. ↗

— Doris Lilly

#get #intoxicating #man #sex #skillful

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#best way #body #depend #into #mechanisms

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#china #intoxication #islam #need #opium