• Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

    Friedrich Nietzsche: Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin