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
What this quote means
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.
Themes
CrimeSocietyJusticePhilosophyMoralityHuman Nature
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about criminal justice reform, this quote can highlight the importance of understanding the complexities of criminal behavior.
More from Friedrich Nietzsche
All quotes βThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
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.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Similar quotes
[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.
Robert Penn WarrenRead
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
Karl MarxRead
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
Mahatma GandhiRead
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
Steve EarleRead
Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.
Alexander LowenRead
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?
Leo BuscagliaRead