Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for…

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 (2012). Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two, p.62, Courier Corporation
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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 (2012). Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two, p.62, Courier Corporation

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