For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as pot…

- John Carroll

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

- John Carroll

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for …

- John Carroll

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their t…

- John Carroll

The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his,…

- John Carroll

Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief a…

- John Carroll

The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of st…

- John Carroll

Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the…

- John Carroll

Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The a…

- John Carroll