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

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

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

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; …

- 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

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

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

- John Carroll

The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowled…

- John Carroll