Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Politicians

• The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Errors, Society

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.79, Penguin UK

• Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Past, Men

• At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Sheep, Rams

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Men, Political

  Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.133, Read Books Ltd

• Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Roles, Politician, Comic

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