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“When the government designates as punishable all play of mind against the state, the moderate liberals come and opine that fun, satire, wit, humor, etc., must have free play anyhow, and genius must enjoy freedom. So not the individual man indeed, but still genius, is to be free. Here the state, or in its name the government, says with perfect right: He who is not for me is against me.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“He [Napoleon] had the defect of all parvenus -- that of having too great an opinion of the class into which he had risen.”
― Stendhal

“We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.”
― Amiri Baraka, Transbluesency: Selected Poems, 1961-1995

“Not to cleave to any person, be it even the dearest — every person is a prison and also a recess.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil