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First Part · XI. The New Idol

The coldest of all cold monsters

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A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people.”

The state is named a cold monster that lies.

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The State, coldest of monstersGeorg Brandes · Aristocratic Radicalism, 1889exposition

Brandes restates Zarathustra's teaching that the State is the coldest of monsters whose lie is that it is the people, whereas creators made peoples; the State is for the many-too-many, and only where it ceases does the man who is a bridge to the Superman begin.

The State, coldest of monstersGeorg Brandes · Aristocratic Radicalism, 1889exposition

Brandes restates Zarathustra's teaching that the State is the coldest of monsters whose lie is that it is the people, whereas creators made peoples; the State is for the many-too-many, and only where it ceases does the man who is a bridge to the Superman begin.