"For both parties in a controversy, the most……" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt."
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1,640 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which…
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that…
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the…
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit…
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of…
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the…
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights.…
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that…
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity;…
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars…
— Howard Zinn
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that,…
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world.…
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or…
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