War Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let your peace be a victory!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the good war that hallows every cause.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At heart I am a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Even the wisest among you is only a conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War to the death against depravity - depravity is Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Alas, the magic of these battles is that whoever looks at them must also fight them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Another thing is war. I am naturally warlike. Attacking is one of my instincts. Being able to be an enemy, being an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

— Friedrich Nietzsche