Max Stirner Quotes

As long as I'm not hurting anybody, I don't think that anything I do is wrong.

Each man must grant himself … the morality that suits him.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes

Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.