"In the Latin malus (which I place sideby side with m e l a V) the vulgar man can be distinguished as the dark-coloured, and above all asthe black-haired ("hic niger est"), as the pre-Aryan inhabitantsof the Italian soil, whose complexion formed the clearest feature of distinction fromthe dominant blondes, namely, the Aryan conquering race: … good, noble, clean, butoriginally the blonde-haired man in contrast to the dark black-haired aboriginals.The Celts, if I may make a parenthetical statement, were throughout a blonde race; andit is wrong to connect, as Virchow still connects, those traces of an essentially dark-hairedpopulation which are to be seen on the more elaborate ethnographical maps of Germany, with anyCeltic ancestry or with any admixture of Celtic blood: in this context, it is rather thepre-Aryan population of Germany which surges up in these districts. (The same istrue substantially of the whole of Europe: in point of fact, the subject race has finallyagain obtained the upper hand, in complexion and the shortness of the skull, and perhapsin the intellectual and social qualities. Who can guarantee that modern democracy, stillmore modern anarchy, and indeed that tendency to the "Commune," the most primitiveform of society, which is now common to all the Socialists in Europe, does not in its realessence signify a monstrous reversion – and that the conquering and masterrace – the Aryan race, is not also becoming inferior physiologically?)"

The Genealogy of Morals, First Essay, Section 5

"The knightly-aristocratic "values" are based on a careful cult ofthe physical, on a flowering, rich, and even effervescing healthiness, that goesconsiderably beyond what is necessary for maintaining life, on war, adventure, the chase,the dance, the tourney — on everything, in fact, which is contained in strong, free,and joyous action. The priestly-aristocratic mode of valuation is … based on otherhypotheses; it is bad enough for this class when it is a question of war! Yet the priestsare, as is notorious, the worst enemies — why? Because they are the weakest.Their weakness causes their hate to expand into a monstrous and sinister shape, a shapewhich is most crafty and most poisonous. The really great haters in the history of the worldhave always been priests, who are also the cleverest haters — in comparison with thecleverness of priestly revenge, every other piece of cleverness is practically negligible.Human history would be too fatuous for anything were it not for the cleverness imported intoit by the weak — take at once the most important instance. All the world’s effortsagainst the "aristocrats," the "mighty," the "masters,"the "holders of power", are negligible by comparison with what has been accomplishedagainst those classes by the Jews — the Jews, that priestly nation which eventuallyrealised that the one method of effecting satisfaction on its enemies and tyrants was bymeans of a radical transvaluation of values, which was at the same time an act of thecleverest revenge. Yet the method was only appropriate to a nation of priests,to a nation of the most jealously nursed priestly revengefulness. It was the Jews who,in opposition to the aristocratic equation (good = aristocratic = beautiful = happy = lovedby the gods), dared with a terrifying logic to suggest the contrary equation, andindeed to maintain with the teeth of the most profound hatred (the hatred of weakness)this contrary equation, namely, "the wretched are alone the good; the suffering,the needy, the sick, the loathsome, are the only ones who are pious, the only ones whoare blessed, for them alone is salvation — but you, on the other hand, you aristocrats,you men of power, you are to all eternity the evil, the horrible, the covetous, the insatiate,the godless; eternally also shall you be the unblessed, the cursed, the damned!"

The Genealogy of Morals, First Essay, Section 7;

see also Beyond Good and Evil, Section 195.

"This Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnate gospel of love, this "Redeemer"bringing salvation and victory to the poor, the sick, the sinful — was he not reallytemptation in its most sinister and irresistible form, temptation to take the tortuouspath to those very Jewish values and those very Jewish ideals? Has not Israelreally obtained the final goal of its sublime revenge, by the tortuous paths of this"Redeemer," for all that he might pose as Israel ’s adversary andIsrael’s destroyer? Is it not due to the black magic of a really great policyof revenge, of a far-seeking, burrowing revenge, both acting and calculating with slowness,that Israel himself must repudiate before all the world the actual instrument of his ownrevenge and nail it to the cross, so that all the world — that is, all the enemies ofIsrael — could nibble without suspicion at this very bait? Could, moreover, any humanmind with all its elaborate ingenuity invent a bait that was more truly dangerous?"

The Genealogy of Morals, First Essay, Section 8

"[The aristocratic men] enjoy their freedom from all social control, they feelthat in the wilderness they can give vent with impunity to that tension which is producedby enclosure and imprisonment in the peace of society, they revert to the innocenceof the beast-of-prey conscience, like jubilant monsters, who perhaps come from a ghastly boutof murder, arson, rape, and torture, with bravado and moral equanimity, as though merely somewild student’s prank had been played, perfectly convinced that the poets have now anample theme to sing and celebrate. It is impossible not to recognise at the core of allthese aristocratic races the beast of prey; the magnificent blonde brute, avidlyrampant for spoil and victory; this hidden core needed an outlet from time to time, thebeast must get loose again, must return into the wilderness — the Roman, Arabic,German, and Japanese nobility, the Homeric heroes, the Scandinavian Vikings, are allalike in this need. … The profound, icy mistrust which the German provokes, as soonas he arrives at power, – even at the present time, – is always still an aftermathof that inextinguishable horror with which for whole centuries Europe has regarded the wrathof the blonde Teuton beast (although between the old Germans and ourselves there existsscarcely a psychological, let alone a physical, relationship). … Granted the truth ofthe theory now believed to be true, that the very essence of all civilisation is totrain out of man, the beast of prey, a tame and civilised animal, a domesticated animal,it follows indubitably that we must regard as the real tools of civilisation allthose instincts of reaction and resentment, by the help of which the aristocratic races,together with their ideals, were finally degraded and overpowered; though that has notyet come to be synonymous with saying that the bearers of those tools alsorepresented the civilisation. It is rather the contrary that is not onlyprobable — nay, it is palpable today; these bearers of vindictive instinctsthat have to be bottled up, these descendants of all European and non-European slavery,especially, of the pre-Aryan population — these people, I say, represent thedecline of humanity! These "tools of civilisation" are a disgrace tohumanity, and constitute in reality more of an argument against civilisation,more of a reason why civilisation should be suspected. One may be perfectly justifiedin being always afraid of the blonde beast that lies at the core of all aristocraticraces, and in being on one’s guard: but who would not a hundred times prefer to beafraid, when one at the same time admires, than to be immune from fear, at the cost ofbeing perpetually obsessed with the loathsome spectacle of the distorted, the dwarfed,the stunted, the envenomed? And is that not our fate?"

The Genealogy of Morals, First Essay, Section 5

The following are aphorisms about womenfrom Beyond Good and Evil:

• "Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she — forgets how to charm." (84)

• "In the background of all their personal vanity, women themselves still have their impersonal scorn — for "woman"." (86)

• "Where there is neither love nor hate in the game, women’s play is mediocre." (115)

• "Even concubinage has been corrupted — by marriage." (123)

• "In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man." (139)

• "When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature." (144)

• "Comparing man and woman generally, one may say that woman would not have the genius for adornment, if she had not the instinct for the secondary role." (145)

And these remarks are mild compared to Thus Spake Zarathustra, XVIII!