Nietzsche1793

“Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus, George Washington, and all the other genocidal butchers with sit-ins; that Crazy Horse, by using violent resistance, became part of the cycle of violence, and as “as bad as” Custer. Nonviolence declares that Africans could have stopped the slave trade with hunger strikes and petitions, and that those who mutinied were as bad as their captors; that mutiny, a form of violence, led to more violence, and, thus, resistance led to more enslavement. Nonviolence refuses to recognize that it can only work for privileged people, who have a status protected by violence, as the perpetrators and beneficiaries of violent hierarchy.”

“To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.”

“It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.”

I also think it's interesting that I have seen the sentiment "well people set things in monarchy because it is relatively easy for readers to understand the politics of that setting" expressed several times in this conversation, because I think that just proves my point actually. unexamined Fantasy European Monarchy actually has very little to do with how the societies that that world is based on functioned in real life. that universal Fantasy Monarchy Setting is reflective of our society's modern understandings and beliefs about the past and the world.

“With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.”

“Boredom is a kind of yearning towards an ideal pleasure.”

“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”