Tracy B. Strong

“It is possible to understand Nietzsche's fulminations against modern politics in the same light as those against morality: given the nihilistic nature of modern valuation systems, all attempts at asserting values, whether in morality or politics, must, of necessity, encourage the onslaught of nihilism. A short reflection of the consequences of the modern mixture of morality and politics and the ensuing ideological conflicts should give one pause before condemning Nietzsche's attack on morality. He is saying that the fact which makes modern politics so dangerous is precisely that morality and politics are of necessity tied.”
― Tracy B. Strong, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration

“The impossibility in the present day and age of combining Christianity and any public sense is underlined most strikingly in Zarathustra. The first person Zarathustra meets is a pious hermit. Zarathustra does not tell him that God is dead. The social message is clear; as with Socratism, implicit in Christianity and its liberal offshoots are elements that make society and the public weal impossible. Its epistemology endlessly destroys the horizons that make all culture and life possible.”
― Tracy B. Strong, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration