The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
Friedrich NietzscheHe who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
Friedrich NietzscheVerily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.
Friedrich Nietzsche