"The State is the coldest of all..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”
“When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.”
“"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!”
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“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself”
“...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.”
“Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.”
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“Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.”
“The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.”
“The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.”