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Quotes from Max Stirner

A minha causa é a causa de nada.
~ Max Stirner
The State is the most necessary means for the complete development of mankind." It assuredly has been so as long as we wanted to develop mankind; but, if we want to develop ourselves, it can be to us only a means of hindrance.
~ Max Stirner
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.
~ Max Stirner
The young are of age when they twitter like the old.
~ Max Stirner
The person is repulsive to it because of being "egoistic," because of not being that abstraction, Man.
~ Max Stirner
What is it, then, that is called a "fixed idea?" An idea that has subjected the man to itself.
~ Max Stirner
For there is nothing more serious than a lunatic when he comes to the central point of his lunacy.
~ Max Stirner
Aus fixen Ideen entstehen die Verbrechen.
~ Max Stirner
Now nothing but spirit rules in the world. A countless multitude of concepts buzz about in people's heads, and what are those who strive to get further doing ? They negate these concepts to put new ones in their place! They say: "You're making a false concept of right, of the state, of the human being, of freedom, of the truth, of marriage, etc.; the concept of right, etc., is rather the one which we now establish." So the conceptual confusion moves forward.
~ Max Stirner