Much That Is Dreadful And Inhuman In History, Much That One Hardly Likes To Believe, Is Mitigated By The Reflection That The One Who Commands And The One Who Carries Out Are Different People.

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Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes
to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and
the one who carries out are different people. The former does not
behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the
imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no
responsibility for his acts.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Winds following one upon the other: The image of the Gently Penetrating.
Thus the superior man Spreads his commands abroad And carries out his undertakings....
Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religio
in Constantinople, one who does. -- Ambrose Bierce...
What does not destroy me, makes me strong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth. -- Friedrich Hebbel
I would believe only in a god who could dance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No one is as tired as the person who does nothing.
One who does not know a burro from a burrow does not know his ass from a hole in the ground!
The chief benefit of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history.
Mathematics contains much that will neither hurt one if one does not know it nor help one if one does know it.
-- J.B. Mencke...

Much That Is Dreadful And Inhuman In History, Much That One Hardly Likes To Believe, Is Mitigated By The Reflection That The One Who Commands And The One Who Carries Out Are Different People.

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