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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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?
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Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.
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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.
