OT: Good quotes

[Baron Munchausen]

Puke said:
how about:

"morality is the pack-instinct of the human species"

or something like that..

Nietzsche usually used 'herd' rather than 'pack'. But there are nuances even in his condemnations:

Human, All Too Human, #233 -- For the despisers of 'herd humanity'. -- He who regards men as a herd and flees from them as fast as he can will certainly be overtaken by them and gored by their horns.

But, over-all he does despise public morality, that is, rigid notions of 'custom' and 'propriety':

Daybreak #19 -- Morality makes stupid. -- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful -- but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the creation of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

[Tamerlane]

I always thought this one was appropriate for SEIV:

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way"

John Paul Jones