Max Stirner Quotes

The army and the government needs a dictator.

At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power..

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn't forbidden is obligatory.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists.

I am in favour of a dictatorship.

Every State is a dictatorship.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Workers ... do not eat legal rights but bread. History, especially recent history, gives much evidence to support the contention that men want security more than freedom and that for an indefinite time they may be successfully governed by a dictator who keeps in mind the maxim that 'contented cows give the best milk.'

... the perfect dictatorship.

All executive power --- from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators --- has the outward appearance of efficiency

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Dictators are the last to know.

I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.

You can't be a dictator any more; anyone who tries to play the part of God will stumble.

In an absolute government there can be no... equiponderant parties. The despot is the government.

One Hundred and Seventy Three Despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases