“Today as always, people fall into two groups: slaves and free people. Whoever does not have two-thirds of their day for themself, is a slave, whatever they may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Human, All Too Human

The privileged are mostly stupid

“One will ask, but how will it be then, when the have-nots take courage? What sort of compensation is there to be then? One might as well ask that I cast a child's birth chart. To know what a slave will do once he has broken his chains, one must—await.”

— Max Stirner

„Die Wahrheit ist häßlich. Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zu Grunde gehen.“

“The truth [reality] is ugly. We have art so that we don't die of truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Der Wille zur Macht (The Will to Power)

“What is to happen, though? Is social life to have an end, and all companionableness, all fraternization, everything that is created by the love or society principle, to disappear?

As if one will not always seek the other because he needs him; as if one must accommodate himself to the other when he needs him. But the difference is this, that then the individual really unites with the individual, while formerly they were bound together by a tie; son and father are bound together before majority, after it they can come together independently; before it they belonged together as members of the family, after it they unite as egoists; sonship and fatherhood remain, but son and father no longer pin themselves down to these.”

— Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

„Das absolute Wissen führt zum Pessimismus: die Kunst ist das Heilmittel dagegen.“

“Absolute knowledge leads to pessimism: art is the remedy for it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Atheists keep up their scoffing at the higher being, which was also honoured under the name of the ‘highest’ or être suprême, and trample in the dust one ‘proof of his existence’ after another, without noticing that they themselves, out of need for a higher being, only annihilate the old to make room for a new.”

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“In the religious domain, too, the extremest liberals go so far that they want to see the most religious man regarded as a citizen, that is, the religious villain; they want to see no more of trials for heresy. But against the ‘rational law’ no one is to rebel, otherwise he is threatened with the severest penalty. What is wanted is not free movement and realization of the person or of me, but of reason – a dominion of reason, a dominion. The liberals are zealots, not exactly for the faith, for God, but certainly for reason, their master. They'll tolerate no impertinence, and therefore no self-development and self-determination; they impose their will as effectively as the most absolute rulers.”


— Max Stirner,
The Ego and Its Own

based on a real convo

„Denn was ist Freiheit! Dass man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.“

“For what is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung (Twilight of the Idols; §9. 38)

It is probably this quote that is often attributed (in a somewhat expanded form) to Max Stirner, but no such quote is found in any known work of Max Stirner (although it does resonate with the spirit of his ideas, and somewhat similar words can be found in his writings).

That attributed quote runs thus:
"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."