Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About War

• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Enemy, Weapons

• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

• How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Mean, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.42, Friedrich Nietzsche

• The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Skills, Overcoming

• I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, War, Wish

  1882 Die fro« hliche Wissenschaft ( The Gay Science), section 276 (translated by WKaufmann).

• Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, War, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

• Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, War, Drug

• A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Joy, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.77, Courier Corporation

• A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Light

  "The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Sec. 864 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.157-62, KSA 13.365-70), 1888.

• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, War, Men

• It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, War, Humanity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.205, Courier Corporation

• Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Mean, Europe

• You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Causes, Good War

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.103, Penguin

• You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Causes, Justify

• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

• How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, War, Enemy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

• Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Stupid, Sleep

• What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Feelings

  "Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

• Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Contentment, Renaissance

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Opponents, Firsts

• But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Evil, Soil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.31, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Despise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.23, Courier Corporation

• I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Age, Heroism

• And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Blow, Wind

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