Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin Books, 1990, p. 137.
The Second World War placed the Mormons in a dilemma whereby they had adherents on both sides of the conflict as was the case with the Catholic Church. Positions the church took on the behavior of the belligerents could cost the church its position and influence especially in Germany. The Catholic Church was more careful of offending the Nazis and did not speak out much against the worst of the atrocities. The Mormons in contrast saw the Nazis as the agents of Satan determined to exterminate the Jews so that they could not return to Israel which under Mormon (and some Protestant) prophesy was necessary to occur before the Second Coming.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
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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.
