∗pity poisons life; only power and strength redeem

What is good?—Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power,…

What is evil?—Whatever springs from weakness.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Mankind surely does not represent an evolution toward a better or strong…

∗A scorching polemic that diagnoses Western civilization as rotting from Christian values—pity, weakness, slave morality—while exalting power, strength, and the exceptional individual.

Nietzsche's final polemic denouncing Christianity as nihilism and the corruption of human strength.