Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. |
Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. |
Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word “justice” into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason... and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play. |
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. |
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. |
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual … who … can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government. |
The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: `I, the state, am the people.'... Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. |
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school. |
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. |
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. |
Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. |
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government. |
Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves. |
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. |
People demand freedom only when they have no power. |
Belief means not wanting to know what is true. |
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. |
If you have a strong enough why you can bear almost any how. |
