Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
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In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
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Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.
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The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
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The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.
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In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
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The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
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By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!
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The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.
