Prince Claus

Famous quotes containing the words prince and/or claus:

    “Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
    —Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)