The Will to Power · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
921.
_The means by which a strong species maintains itself_:-- It grants itself the right of exceptional actions, as a test of the power of self-control and of freedom. It abandons itself to states in which a man is not allowed to be anything else than a barbarian. It tries to acquire strength of will by every kind of asceticism. It is not expansive, it practises silence; it is cautious in regard to all charms. It learns to obey in such a way that obedience provides a test of self-maintenance. Casuistry is carried to its highest pitch in regard to points of honour. It never argues, "What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,"--but conversely! it regards reward, and the ability to repay, as a privilege, as a distinction. It does not covet _other_ people's virtues. The way in which one has to treat raw savages and the impossibility of dispensing with barbarous methods, becomes obvious, in practice, when one is transplanted, with all one's European pampering, to a spot such as the Congo, or anywhere else where it is necessary to maintain one's mastery over barbarians.
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