Max Stirner

"I am owner of my might, and I am so when I now myself as unique. In the unique one the owner himself returns into his creative nothing, of which he is born. Every higher essence above me, be it God, b…"

"But let the individual man lay claim to ever so many rights because Man or the concept man ‘entitles’ him to them, because his being man does it: what do I care for his right and his claim? If he has …"

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

"Egoism, as Stirner uses it, is not opposed to love nor to thought; it is no enemy of the sweet life of love, nor of devotion and sacrifice; it is no enemy of intimate warmth, but it is also no enemy o…"

"Whoso is full of sacred love loves only the spook, the “true man,” and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man."

"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 State’s behavior is violence, and it calls its violence “law”; that of the individual, “crime."

"I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves.…"