So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.

Source:Nietzsche's Zarathustra, Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939 (Princeton University Press, ed. 1988), Lecture I (May 6, 1936), Page 897
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