I Understand Regicide As A Means Of

Anarchy, When It Works To Destroy Authority In All Its Aspects, When It Demands The Abrogation Of Laws And The Abolition Of The Mechanism That Serves To Impose Them, When It Refuses All Hierarchical Organization And Preaches Free Agreement - At The Same Time Strives To Maintain And Enlarge The Precious Kernel Of Social Customs Without Which No Human Or Animal Society Can Exist. Only, Instead Of Demanding That Those Social Customs Should Be Maintained Through The Authority Of A Few, It Demands It From The Continued Action Of All.

The Immense And Ever Increasing Sums Which The State Wrings From The People Are Never Enough For It; It Mortgages The Income Of Future Generations, And Steers Resolutely Toward Bankruptcy.

Of All Parties I Now See Only One Party- The Anarchist- Which Respects Human Life, And Loudly Insists Upon The Abolition Of Capital Punishment, Prison Torture And Punishment Of Man By Man Altogether.

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 Law Is An Adroit Mixture Of Customs That Are Beneficial To Society, And Could Be Followed Even If No Law Existed, And Others That Are Of Advantage To A Ruling Minority, But Harmful To The Masses Of Men, And Can Be Enforced On Them Only By Terror.