“When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.” IfsMenHandsUsedHoursTakenCuttingObjectsHe ManAmountBecomingLaborMachinesSlaveryWorkersSatisfiedFactoriesTwelveTireCondemningFactory Workers Author:Max Stirner
“The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.” StatesIndividualLibertyObjectsLimitsSubordinates Author:Max Stirner
“If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.” IfsMenFirstsSelfFallKnowingObjectsIgnoranceStrangeHonorResponsibleStriveFairyBarriersSelf KnowledgeStrifeSelf RelianceRelianceLapAssertionBeing ResponsibleHindrance Author:Max Stirner
“If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.” IfsKnowsFeelsChildrenDoeKnow HowObjectsEnnui Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
