Where there is peace, Ray muses in his voice-over, quoting Nietzsche, the warlike man attacks himself.

F. is fond of quoting Nietzsche, and like Nietzsche was driven insane by syphilis.

"The criminal fight against culture is only the reverse side of a criminal culture" wrote Klossowski after quoting Nietzsche.

He read voraciously, and quoted Nietzsche: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."

Quoting Nietzsche and Herbert Spencer, he rejects the "slave morality" of socialism, even at socialist meetings.

He quotes Nietzsche on the subject of the "warrior mentality" and the need for war.

He quotes Nietzsche and, when on the run from some nameless terror, moans, "So many questions, so few answers."

When his would-be mentor quotes Nietzsche on prostitution, Pierrot listens without hearing.

She quotes Nietzsche.