The Will to Power

by Friedrich Nietzsche

morality is the renunciation of the will to live

It is disgraceful that all the advocates of Socialist theories believe that there could be circumstances and social arrangements which would no longer promote vice, disease, crime, prostitution and even poverty . . . But that amounts to a condemnation of life itself . . . A society is not at liberty to remain young, and even at the height of its powers a society still produces refuse and waste. The more bold and energetic its progress, the more prolific it is in failures and defectives – and the nearer its destruction. One cannot ward off decrepitude, or disease, or vice with better institutions; it is folly to think otherwise.