Precisely

Famous quotes containing the word precisely:

“On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that ... Masters of the Universe.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

“Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society—which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement—will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.”
—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)

“One lives for today, one lives on the spur of the moment—one lives most irresponsibly: and it is precisely this that one calls “freedom.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)