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."

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

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

"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."