Max Stirner Quotes

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• What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.
• The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and…
• Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.
• Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
• Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
• If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy…
• From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself…
• Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in…
• Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in…
• The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other…
• When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and…
• Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
• 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 the…
• Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity…
• The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but…
• There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves…
• If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!
• The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime
• Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that…
• Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should…

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