Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many. Max Stirner More Quotes by Max Stirner More Quotes From Max Stirner The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime. Max Stirner libertarian-party government law If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves! Max Stirner take-care care ifs Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken. Max Stirner granted liberty taken 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 will to be responsible for one's self. Max Stirner freedom men fall 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 solely what is mine, and it is not a general one, but is -- unique, as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself! Max Stirner etc unique men We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression. Max Stirner cynical expression self Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority. Max Stirner authority doe needs Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man. Max Stirner real religious men My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property. Max Stirner property give-me giving A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists. Max Stirner slave race men 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 its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up. Max Stirner police self men 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, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. Max Stirner infatuation sacred men 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." Max Stirner purpose leadership might 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 religion. Max Stirner genius religious would-be Nothing is more to me than myself. Max Stirner egotism I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair. Max Stirner break-through tears mean When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other. Max Stirner cutting taken men The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils. Max Stirner religious mind thinking Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. Max Stirner cheer air order 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 spirits, but also the belief in the spirit. Max Stirner belief spirit men
