Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of what is alien and weaker; suppression, hardness, imposition of one’s own forms, incorporation and at least, at its mildest, exploitation.…
Whatever refrains from injury, violence or exploitation equals a will to deny life – a dissolution and decay. Corruption is an indication that anarchy threatens to break out among instincts.
If it is a living and not a dying body…it will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant—not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power.
But there is no point on which the ordinary consciousness of Europeans resists instruction as on this: everywhere people are now raving, even under scientific disguises, about coming conditions of society in which “the exploitative aspect” will be removed—which sounds to me as if they promised to invent a way of life that would dispense with all organic functions.
Slave Morality
- Morality of utility – The only means of supporting burdens of existence
- Sympathy, kindness, helping, patience and humility
- Persuade himself that happiness is not genuine
- Scepticism and distrust
- “Evil man” raises fear
- Pessimistic suspicion and a condemnation of man
- A Good man is a Shade of depreciation, The safe man, a Good-nurtured, easily deceived, a little stupid
“Exploitation” does not belong to a corrupt or imperfect and primitive society: it belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will of life.”