A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
