Supreme Executive Power

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

    “We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “She isn’t harassed. She’s busy, and it’s glamorous to be busy. Indeed, the image of the on- the-go working mother is very like the glamorous image of the busy top executive. The scarcity of the working mother’s time seems like the scarcity of the top executive’s time.... The analogy between the busy working mother and the busy top executive obscures the wage gap between them at work, and their different amounts of backstage support at home.”
    —Arlie Hochschild (20th century)

    “Everyone who has ever built anywhere a “new heaven” first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)