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> [Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/yes-yes-children-must-early-be-made-to-practise-piety-godliness-and/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

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## More by Max Stirner

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/whoever-will-be-free-must-make-himself-free-freedom-is-no-fairy-gift/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [I am all and nothing; I am not a mere thought, but at the same time I am full of thoughts, a thought-world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/i-am-all-and-nothing-i-am-not-a-mere-thought-but-at-the-same-time-i/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/only-the-free-and-personal-man-is-a-good-citizen-realist-and-even/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [Liberty of the people is not my liberty!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/liberty-of-the-people-is-not-my-liberty/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/people-is-the-name-of-the-body-state-of-the-spirit-of-that-ruling/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/many-a-man-renounces-morals-but-with-great-difficulty-the-conception/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/freedom-cannot-be-granted-it-must-be-taken/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/for-what-reason-then-do-the-realists-show-themselves-so-unfriendly/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/every-state-is-a-despotism-be-the-despot-one-or-many/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/before-what-is-sacred-people-lose-all-sense-of-power-and-all/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/christianity-has-aimed-to-deliver-us-from-a-life-determined-by-nature/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/the-freedom-of-man-is-in-political-liberalism-freedom-from-persons/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/is-not-all-the-stupid-chatter-of-most-of-our-newspapers-the-babble-of/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/yes-yes-children-must-early-be-made-to-practise-piety-godliness-and/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

> [We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/we-do-not-aspire-to-communal-life-but-to-a-life-apart/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

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