“My purpose: to demonstrate the absolute oppressiveness of all events and the application of moral distinctions as conditioned by perspective; to demonstrate how everything praised as moral is identical in essence with everything immoral and was made possible, as in every development of morality, wit…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I've written this against a background of both reckless optimism and reckless despair. It holds that Progress and Doom are two sides of the same medal.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”— Walter Benjamin, amazon.com
“The concept of 'reprehensible action' presents us with some difficult. Nothing in all that happens can be reprehensible in itself: one not dare to eliminate it completely for everything is so bound up with everything else, that to exclude one part would mean to exclude the whole. A reprehensible act…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com