Supreme Power

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

“Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

“Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin’s lot.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)

“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)