Supreme Power

Famous quotes containing the words supreme and/or power:

    “And what do I care if she marries another? every other night I dream of her dresses and things on an endless clothesline of bliss, in a ceaseless wind of possession, and her husband shall never learn what I do to the silks and fleece of the dancing witch. This is love’s supreme accomplishment. I am happy—yes, happy! What more can I do to prove it, how to proclaim that I am happy? Oh, to shout it so that all of you believe me at last, you cruel, smug people.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “What is good?—Everything that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)