The true party man learns no longer-he only experiences and judges. To accept a faith just because it is customary, means to be dishonest, to be cowardly, to be lazy. The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
Fear is the power by which the community is preserved.
If one considers, on the other hand, that every original community requires a high degree of fearlessness in its members in other respects, then it becomes clear that what is to be feared in the case of morality must inspire fear in the very highest degree. To have an opinion means for them to fanaticize for it and thenceforth to press it to their hearts as a conviction. If something is unexplained, they grow hot over the first notion that comes into their heads and looks like an explanation-which results progressively in the worst consequences. Although the most acute judges of the witches, and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistent. It is thus with all guilt.