“Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression, severity, imposition of one’s own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation….. because life is Will to Power”
— Nietzsche

“For believe in me! The secret to reaping the most fruitful and the greatest pleasure from existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships to virgin seas! Live at war with your peers and with yourself! Be bandits and conquerors, if you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! The era will soon pass when you can be content to live hidden in the woods like shy gazelles! Finally, the pursuit of knowledge will exact its due: – it will want to rule and possess, and you too!”
— Nietzsche, The Gay Science

"Valor is the contempt of death and pain."
— Tacitus

"In the Dionysian, Nietzsche sees eternal life, the eternal return of life, sexual symbolism, acceptance of pain, the joy of creation, festivity, an overflowing feeling of life and strength, and the sacrifice of the highest type."
— Yunus Tuncel, Agon in Nietzsche

"Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided, but by blood and iron."
— Otto von Bismarck

“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”
― Nietzsche

*O son of Kunti, either you will be killed on the battlefield and attain the heavenly planets, or you will conquer and enjoy the earthly kingdom. Therefore get up and fight with determination.

— Bhagavad Gita, 2.37*

*“You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”

― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire*