1. Modern societies are similarly slavish, Nietzsche argued, but they sublimate this knowledge by attaching themselves to such 'phantoms' as the 'equal rights of all', the 'fundamental rights of man', and the 'dignity of labour'. 155 For Nietzsche, life is a struggle for existence in which only the strong survive. Accordingly, 'the overwhelming majority must', he argued, 'be slavishly subjected to life's struggle', so that the privileged few can pursue the good life. 156 '[A] rainbow of pitying love and peace' may have appeared 'with the first radiant rise of Christianity;the protection of universal human rights. The Greeks, he insisted, had no need for such 'conceptual hallucinations'. 154 They frankly disparaged the utter ignominy of labour and organised their societies so that they met the physical needs of their citizen elites
2. Everything that is well-constituted, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offence to its ears and eyes. Again I remind you of Paul's priceless words: 'And God hath chosen the weak things of the world, the foolish things of the world, the base things of the world, and things which are despised': this was the formula; in hoc signo the d�cadence triumphed. -God on the cross -is man always to miss the frightful inner significance of this symbol? -Everything that suffers;Christianity has the rancour of the sick at its very core -the instinct against the healthy, against health