“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power.”
Cold Turkey (2004)
Context: Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
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