“Political liberty,” what are we to understand by that? Perhaps the individual’s independence of the State and its laws? No; on the contrary, the individual’s subjection in the State and to the State’s laws... Political liberty means that the polis,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I am all and nothing; I am not a mere thought, but at the same time I am full of thoughts, a thought-world. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims'… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
