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)