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Full Idea
All moralities are baroque and unreasonable ...because they address themselves to 'all', because they generalise where one must not generalise.
Gist of Idea
Moralities extravagantly address themselves to 'all', by falsely generalising
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], §198)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Beyond Good and Evil', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1973], p.101
A Reaction
'Particularism' is a recent label, but one finds passing remarks from many earlier philosophers which support that approach to ethics. No one was ever more opposed to strict moral rules than Nietzsche.