Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 320.
This proverb is particularly relevant to the legislative process where coalitions of legislators trade off support for other issues to get support on a current issue. The problem is that someone who will support you only because you offer him something, might also abandon you if the other side offers him more.
1st Earl of Oxford. See {563056} for an American political leader’s similar view.
See {640733} for an English political leader’s similar view.
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900.
