Hubris, the drunk that doesn't have the decency to give you a hangover.

Imagine if every time a politician lied or bullshitted their body treated them like they just had a double shot of Jack Daniels. Then I'd watch the election debates.

“Hubris is a kind of intoxication. A kind of madness that overtakes those in power and clouds their judgment.”

— Paraphrased from ancient Greek thought

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

— Bill Gates

“Hubris, the false presumption that one is somehow exempt from the rules, is always punished. The higher the ego climbs, the harder the fall.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

— Lord Acton

“Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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