The People Send the Police Against Everything That Seems Immoral or Even Only Unseemly

That devotion to the sacred also brings it about that without any lively interest of one's own, one only delivers malefactors into the hands of the police and the courts: an apathetic giving over to the authorities, "who will, of course, best administer sacred things." The people goes utterly nuts, sending the police against everything that seems immoral, or even only unseemly, to it; and this popular rage for the moral protects the police institution more than the mere government could possibly protect it.

--Max Stirner, The Unique and Its Property, trans. and ed. Wolfi Landstreicher (Baltimore: Underworld Amusements, 2017), 253.