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The ‘I think, therefore I am’ of Descartes, the ‘I feel, therefore I am’ of late eighteenth century Romanticism, and the ‘I possess therefore I am’ of bourgeois man are dogmas, partial at that, incorporated to define a being that is incapable of defining itself.

— 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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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.

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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’.

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

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