Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."

"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."

"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."

"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."

"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."