As An Anarchist, I Cannot Reconcile Myself

I Understand Regicide As A Means Of Obtaining Vengeance For The Ruin Of Our Lives, But Regicide As A Means Of Obtaining Political Freedom I Could Never Understand.

Either The State For Ever, Crushing Individual And Local Life, Taking Over In All Fields Of Human Activity, Bringing With It Its Wars And Its Domestic Struggles For Power, Its Palace Revolutions Which Only Replace One Tyrant By Another, And Inevitably At The End Of This Development There Is ... Death! Or The Destruction Of States, And New Life Starting Again In Thousands Of Centers On The Principle Of The Lively Initiative Of The Individual And Groups And That Of Free Agreement.the Choice Lies With You!

The Education We All Receive From The State, At School And After, Has So Warped Our Minds That The Very Notion Of Freedom Ends Up By Being Lost, And Disguised In Servitude. It Is A Sad Sight To See Those Who Believe Themselves To Be Revolutionaries Unleashing Their Hatred On The Anarchist Just Because His Views On Freedom Go Beyond Their Petty And Narrow Concepts Of Freedom Learned In The State School.

In Order That The Revolution Should Be Something More Than A Word, In Order That The Reaction Should Not Lead Us Back Tomorrow To The Situation Of Yesterday, The Conquest Of Today Must Be Worth The Trouble Of Defending; The Poor Of Yesterday Must Be Worth The Trouble Of Defending; The Poor Of Yesterday Must Not Be Poor Tomorrow.

It Is Often Said That Anarchists Live In A World Of Dreams To Come, And Do Not See The Things Which Happen Today. We Do See Them Only Too Well, And In Their True Colors, And That Is What Makes Us Carry The Hatchet Into The Forest Of Prejudice That Besets Us.