Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Justice

• But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, People, Justice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.134, Penguin

• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

• But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Justice, Distrust

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.122, Friedrich Nietzsche

• The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice Equality, Doctrine, Would Be

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

• The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Equality, Justice, Doctrine

• Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Justice, Pure

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Peter Preuss (1980). “On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life: Part II of Thoughts Out of Season”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

• Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Objectivity, Justice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

• We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opportunity, Justice, Judgement

• For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Men, Justice

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.96, Algora Publishing

• If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice, Judging, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice, Goal, Judging

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