129 Quotes by Max Stirner

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 not let himself be determined by his appetites.

Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

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".

God sinks into dust before man.

Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.

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."