>The Jews are without any doubt the strongest, most tenacious, and purest race now living in Europe. They understand how to assert themselves even under the worst conditions (better even than under favourable conditions), as a result of certain virtues which today people might like to stamp as vices - thanks, above all, to a resolute faith which has no need to feel shame when confronted by "modern ideas... it might be practical and appropriate to throw the anti-Semitic hooligans out of the country." Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 251>All anti-Semites ought to be shot. Wilhelm, Bismarck and all anti-Semites done away with!Letter from January 1889>Every nation, every man, possesses unpleasant, indeed dangerous qualities: it is cruel to demand that the Jew should constitute an exception... Nonetheless, I should like to know how much must, in a total accounting, be forgiven a people who, not without us all being to blame, have had the most grief-laden history of any people and whom we have to thank for the noblest human being (Christ), the purest sage (Spinoza), the mightiest book and the most efficacious moral code in the world.Human, All Too Human, Aphorism 475>The Jews are the most remarkable people in the history of the world... When faced with the question of being or non-being, they showed an absolute uncanny awareness and chose being at any price...The Antichrist, Aphorism 24>After I read the name Zarathustra in the Anti-Semitic Correspondence my forbearance came to an end. I am now in a position of emergency defense against your spouse’s Party. These accursed anti-Semite deformities shall not sully my ideal!!"Letter from December 1887>This most anti-cultural sickness and unreason there is, nationalism, this "nervose nationale" with which Europe is sick, this perpetuation of European particularism, of petty politics…a dead-end street.The Case of Wagner, Section 11Antisemitism is an ideology of the weak, no different from blacks seething over whites
