Nietzsche: Unknowing Cause Of World War I?

"Everywhere there had been some growth in sympathy for Dostoyevsky's view that man's true and authentic nature was revealed only in extreme experiences, of passion, horror, suffering. Central to the artistic drive of the time had been resentment against the constraints, hypocrisies, and mediocrities of bourgeois civilization . . . of Gavrilo Princip, the Sarajevo assassin, it is recorded that he had an apposite fondness for Nietzsche's words, 'Insatiable as flame, I burn and consume myself.'"
- Michael D. Biddiss, Age of the Masses: Ideas and Society in Europe Since 1870, pg. 170