Occupation: Philosopher Birth: October 25, 1806 Death: June 26, 1856
When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker mus….
We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart..
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists..
The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the immoral man. He who is not moral is immoral! and accordingly reprobate, ….
Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken..
Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, ….
The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what ….
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see….
The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime..
Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property..
Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority..
We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression..
Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter..
My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property..
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented ….
Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right.".
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its su….
If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!.
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible f….
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my ….
The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individ….