Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Free
  • Sin
  • Clean

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Body

• They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Who

• Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Lost

• When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Laugh

• But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Attention
  • Right

• Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • People
  • Live
  • Today

• Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Me
  • Angry
  • Pleasure

• Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Art
  • Forget

• Personal religion collapses with some individuals, because in their case it had long been growing hollow and thin. ... In reality there was little personal religion to lose, and that little would probably have been lost in some other way.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Growing

• Supply and demand constantly determine the prices of commodities; never balance, or only coincidentally; but the cost of production, for its part, determines the oscillations of supply and demand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Balance

• Cool pools from a tired land sink now in the peace of evening Clouds weaken and die. The sun, an orange skull, whispers quietly, becomes an island, & is gone. There they are watching us everything will be dark. The light changed. We were aware knee-deep in the fluttering air as the ships move on trains in their wake.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Light
  • Peace
  • Die

• People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • People
  • Wife
  • Dope

• In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Fun
  • Band

• I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Up
  • Family
  • Career

• I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

  

  Chris Crutcher

• You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Believe
  • Humanity
  • Reflection

• Established technology companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google have expanded their reach and influence throughout the world. And while many countries have pushed back against that spread, our government has essentially left them alone.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • World
  • Alone
  • Technology

• What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche