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Full Idea
Culture absolutely cannot do without passions, vices and acts of malice.
Gist of Idea
Culture cannot do without passions and vices
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 477)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.230
A Reaction
I'm not sure how you test the truth of that aphorism, given that humanity is perpetually doomed to live with such things. If those qualities disappeared, I suppose we would drift apart. We are 'dependent' beings, as MacIntyre says.