“ The creditor has always grown more humane proportionately as he has grown more rich ”
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1887). copy citation
Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Source | On the Genealogy of Morality |
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Date | 1887 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Horace B. Samuel |
Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Genealogy_of_Morals |
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“As the power and the self-consciousness of a community increases, so proportionately does the penal law become mitigated; conversely every weakening and jeopardising of the community revives the harshest forms of that law. The creditor has always grown more humane proportionately as he has grown more rich; finally the amount of injury he can endure without really suffering becomes the criterion of his wealth. It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting its wrong-doers go scot-free.—"What do my parasites matter to me?"”
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