Max Stirner Quotes on Politics
Johann Kaspar Schmidt, who wrote under the pen name Max Stirner, was a German philosopher and the principal exponent of philosophical egoism. This page collects quotes attributed to Max Stirner on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Max Stirner:
“All causes higher than my own are spooks.”
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“The state calls its own violence law, that of the individual crime.”
The State’s behavior is violence, and it calls its violence “law”; that of the individual, “crime. -
“Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education , as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority .”
p. 12 -
“In the pedagogical as in certain other spheres freedom is not allowed to erupt, the power of the opposition is not allowed to put a word in edgewise: they want submissiveness . Only a formal and material training is being aimed at and only scholars come out of the menageries of the humanists, only "useful citizens" out of those of the realists, both of whom are indeed nothing but subservient people. Our good background of recalcitrancy [sic] gets strongly suppressed and with it the development of knowledge to free will. The result of school is then philistinism.”
p. 23