Max Stirner Quotes

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

She make me beg for it until she give it up

The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

Thou shalt never wash my feet.

Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude