Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Morality