Quotes of Max Stirner - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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. We owe each other nothing, for what I seem to owe you I owe at most to myself. If I show you a cheery air in order to cheer you likewise, then your cheeriness is of consequence to me, and my air serves my wish; to a thousand others, whom I do not aim to cheer, I do not show it. ”

- Max Stirner

“ God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes...He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause isA purely egoistic cause. ”

- Max Stirner

“ It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State. ”

- Max Stirner

“ Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age." Our equipment consists of "elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles. ”

- Max Stirner

“ Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age." Our equipment consists of "elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles. ”

- Max Stirner

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

- Max Stirner

“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”

- Max Stirner

“ 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

“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”

- Max Stirner

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

- Max Stirner

“ Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. ”

- Max Stirner

“ The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. ”

- Max Stirner

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

- Max Stirner

“ 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

“ He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it. ”

- Max Stirner

“ 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

“ He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it. ”

- Max Stirner

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

- Max Stirner

“ Nothing is more to me than myself. ”

- Max Stirner

“ 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

“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”

- Max Stirner

“ Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. ”

- Max Stirner

“ 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

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

- Max Stirner

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

- Max Stirner

“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”

- Max Stirner

“ 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

“ He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it. ”

- Max Stirner

“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”

- Max Stirner
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