More by Max Stirner
Liberty of the people is not my liberty!
The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)
Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.
The False Principle of our Education (1842)
The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
The Great Quotations (1960)
The republic is nothing whatever but – absolute monarchy; for it makes no difference whether the monarch is called prince or people, both being a 'majesty'.
The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)
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.
The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)
The State’s behavior is violence, and it calls its violence “law”; that of the individual, “crime.”
The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)
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?
The Ego and Its Own / The Unique and Its Property (1845)
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