"Those who protest most loudly for their rights are those who know they don't have any." Can someone give me a reference for this, and maybe a more exact quote? Kaufmann or Hollingdale translation? Thanks friends.
2007-05-05 12:54:53 · 2 answers · asked by Iconoclast 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Passions and rights.— No one speaks more passionately about his rights than the man who, at the bottom of his heart, doubts them. In drawing passion to his side, he wants to deaden reason and its doubts: he thus gains a good conscience, and, along with it, success with his fellow men.
2007-05-05 16:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by Mild.Malice. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would this be it?
"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
2007-05-05 13:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋