Famous quotes containing the word degree:
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
“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 (17511836)
“Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of powerassuming that life itself is the will to power.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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