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, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.
Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.
We don’t call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation – that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.
Is not all the stupid chatter of most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, christianity and so forth, and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space?
Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.
Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
The people is dead! Good-day, Self!
From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.
Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!
If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.