Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain circumspection and distrust, so there are qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence.
    James Madison (1751–1836)