Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Justice
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.
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But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.
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The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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