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By punishing the criminal the moral man hopes to dissuade the evil imprisoned in his own breast from escaping. Fear of self is projected in hatred of the immoral other.

— John Carroll Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974)

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A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

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Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts ‘from above’.

Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974)

Whereas Marx’s vision of homo faber becomes inoperative within social chains, Stirner’s man makes his own freedom.

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Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative—the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

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Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

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