The slave revolt in morality begins when ressentiment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of creatures to whom the real reaction, that of the deed, is denied and who can indemnify themselves only through an imaginary revenge. While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is ‘outside’, what is ‘different’, what is ‘not itself’: and this No is its creative act.
