Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
    Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)

    A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)