Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
Interpretation
Nietzsche suggests that society's treatment of criminals is misguided and overly simplistic.
In this quote, Friedrich Nietzsche critiques the societal approach to crime and criminals, pointing out that treating them merely as 'rascals' does not address the underlying issues of morality, justice, and human nature. He implies that our response to criminal behavior lacks depth and fails to consider the complexities of individual circumstances and societal influences.
In practice
In a discussion about criminal justice reform, this quote can highlight the importance of understanding the complexities of criminal behavior.
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
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