Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Slaves

• I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, People, Soul

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

• I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Creating, Want

• While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creative, Different, Noble

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.472, Modern Library

• Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Work, Two, Slave

• All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Slave, Mankind, All Time

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.150, Courier Corporation

• Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Two

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.171, U of Nebraska Press

• The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Hardship

• Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Slave, Nobility, Disobedience

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.49, Booklassic

• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

• He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Tradition, Slave

• Master-morality and Slave-morality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morality, Slave, Masters

  Beyond Good and Evil pt. 9, sec. 260 (1886) (translation by Judith Norman)

• Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Resistance, Slave, Obedience

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

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