Great Throughts Treasury

"Nietzsche’s approach developed eventually into a program for radically questioning all the foundations of Western thought. We are slaves to convention, he says - we base our whole lives on attitudes and ideas whose premises, if we ever get round to actually examining them, we reject. This makes ours an inauthentic way of living, a dead way of living. We must re-evaluate our values in the light of what we honestly do believe and feel."

"It seems beyond any doubt that if the churches had opposed the killing of the congenitally insane and the sick, there would have been no Final Solution."