Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power

Book Two: Critique of Highest Values

313 It would arouse doubts in us concerning a man if we heard he needed reasons for remaining decent: certainly, we would avoid him. The little word “for” can be compromising in certain cases; one can even refute oneself now and then with a single “for.” Now, if we hear further that such an aspirant to virtue needed bad reasons for remaining respectable, this would be no reason for us to feel an increased respect for him. But he goes further, he comes to us and tells us to our face: “Unbeliever, you are disturbing my morality with your unbelief; as long as you do not  believe in my bad reasons, which is to say in God, in a punishment in the beyond, in freedom of will, you hamper my virtueMoral: unbelievers must be abolished: they hamper the moralization of the masses.”