Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Revenge

• In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Revenge, Women

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.79, Friedrich Nietzsche

• I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Mean, Race

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

• Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Successful, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.93, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Hate, Rights

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

• For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Revenge, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.233, Vintage

• One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Cities, People

• Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Heart, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.55, U of Nebraska Press

• It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Suffering, Pay

• That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Eye, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Truth, Revenge

• In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Quality, Different

• He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Sight, Ugly

• For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Self, Evil

• A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Humans, No Revenge

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.51, Algora Publishing

• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Wall, Revenge

• Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Ignorance, Age

• We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Hate, Men

• ...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Revenge, Expectations

• In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, War, Silence

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