Max

The thought is my own only when I have no misgiving about bringing it in danger of death every moment, when I do not have to fear its loss as a loss to me, a loss of me.

Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority, Steven E. Byington, translator, as quoted by Joel Spring, Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom and Culture from Socrates to Human Rights (Second Edition, 1999).