Max Stirner Quotes

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Liberty is its own reward.

Freedom and independence is my character.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

You'll be free or die!

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

If one awakens in men the idea of freedom, then the free men will incessantly go on to free themselves…

The people are their own liberators.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Please don't tell me what I can't do.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.