Max Stirner Quotes

Freedom is from within.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

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

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.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

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

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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

Self Emancipation

The people are their own liberators.

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

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

I'm in control of my life.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.