Anger and Indignation

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was created by eternal love'--at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise...the inscription 'I too was created by eternal hate'...

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race...

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Holding onto anger is like holding onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Having a grievance or resentment is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.

Great spirits have always been violently oppressed by mediocre minds.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.