"He who is punished is never he..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.”

“The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.”

“He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap”

“There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.”

“Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?”

“Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.”

“May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways”

“In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.”

“What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!”