Superior Power

Famous quotes containing the words superior and/or power:

“The traveler to the United States will do well ... to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“Though I than He—may longer live
He longer must—than I—
For I have but the power to kill,
Without—the power to die—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)