"My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not
lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what
it costs us. I give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be
liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and
no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. One
knows, indeed, what their ways bring: they undermine the will to power;
they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men
small, cowardly, and hedonistic [genüsslich] — every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization ."
- Nietzsche, Expeditions of an Untimely Man, 38.
One word: ouch. ;)
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