Max Stirner Quotes

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• 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

  Men, Self, Police

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• Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

  Max Stirner

  Taken, Liberty, Granted

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• The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

  Max Stirner

  Government, Law, Libertarian Party

  "The Great Quotations". Book by George Seldes, p. 664, 1960.

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• Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

  Max Stirner

  Doe, Needs, Authority

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• 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, Fall, Men

  Forbes, Volume 78, 1956.

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• 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

  Care, Take Care, Ifs

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• A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Race, Slave

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• 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

  Unique, Men, Etc

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.5, Rebel Press

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• We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

  Max Stirner

  Self, Expression, Cynical

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• The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

  Max Stirner

  Liberty, Limits, Individual

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• Nothing is more to me than myself.

  Max Stirner

  Egotism

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Mean, Break Through, Tears

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner, translated by Benjamin Tucker, New York edition, p. 187, 1907.

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• My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

  Max Stirner

  Giving, Give Me, Property

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

  Max Stirner

  Know How, Property, Knows

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• We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

  Max Stirner

  Aspire

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• 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

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.

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• 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, "crime".

  Max Stirner

  War, Law, Practice

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.197, Rebel Press

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• 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, Thinking, Mind

  Max Stirner, James J. Martin, Steven T. Byington (2005). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Religious, Would Be, Genius

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• 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

  Religious, Real, Men

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.288, Courier Corporation

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• Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

  Max Stirner

  Ties, Sacred, Fetters

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Leadership, Purpose, Might

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the immoral man. He who is not moral is immoral! and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Enemy, Etc

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

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• 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

  Men, Sacred, Infatuation

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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