Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
This courageous woman wrote many articles exposing some of the excesses of the Russians in coping with the Chechen conflict and the Chechen terrorists. She was also very critical of the Putin administration. She had just published an article exposing torture used by the Russians in dealing with terrorists. She was gunned down outside her apartment in Moscow. Politkovskaya was actually born in America and was an American Citizen as well as a Russian Citizen.
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.
