Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About War
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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.
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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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At heart I am a warrior.
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A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
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It is the good war that hallows every cause.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
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To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.
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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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In war personal revenge maintains its silence.
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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
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