Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.