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Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

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Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

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Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.

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The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

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My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

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People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

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What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

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What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

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"Freedom" awakens your rage against everything that is not you; "egoism" calls you to joy over yourselves, to self-enjoyment.

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Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all — why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

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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."

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[...] Because the Egoist is to himself the warder of the human, and has nothing to say to the state except: "Get out of my sunshine!"

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One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

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If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

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Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

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He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

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Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the true man, and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

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Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

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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 individual, "crime".

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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 for one's self.

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The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

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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.

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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.

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Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection [Empörung] leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hopes on institutions.

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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, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

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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.

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