Supreme Executive Power

Famous quotes containing the words supreme, executive and/or power:

    “What makes us heroic?—Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “We know that madness belongs to love,—what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)