Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.
Friedrich NietzscheHow is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
Friedrich NietzscheIn the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
Friedrich NietzscheThere are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.
Friedrich Nietzsche