My Own Will Is the Destroyer of the State

My own will is the destroyer of the state; the latter therefore denounces it as "self-will." Own will and the state are powers in deadly hostility, between which no "perpetual peace" is possible. As long as the state holds its ground, it portrays own will, its ever-hostile opponent, as irrational, evil, etc.; and the latter lets itself be talked into this, that indeed it really is so, merely because it still lets itself be talked into this: it has not yet come to itself and to the awareness of its dignity, and so is still incomplete and easily persuaded.

--Max Stirner, The Unique and Its Property, trans. and ed. Wolfi Landstreicher (Baltimore: Underworld Amusements, 2017), 208.