"Every State is a despotism, be the despot…" — Max Stirner

"Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many."

— Max Stirner

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48 Quotes by Max Stirner

Max Stirner has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence…
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…
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…
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…
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of…
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and…
In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather…

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More Despot Quotes

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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle… — Aeschylus
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose… — Boyd Rice
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the… — Eric Hoffer
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the… — Thomas Jefferson
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less… — Herbert Spencer
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but… — Charles Caleb Colton
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me… — Eric G. Wilson
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture… — Kurt Lewin
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and… — Aeschines

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