Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Fear is the mother of morality.