Max Stirner Quotes

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• Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
• The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
• The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual,…
• Liberty of the people is not my liberty!
• A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
• We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
• The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads…
• We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.
• Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my…
• No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is…
• For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want…
• In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become…
• My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.
• Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.
• Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may…
• He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man,…
• Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."
• Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.
• The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
• Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

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