It Is Often Said That Anarchists Live

No Evolution Is Accomplished In Nature Without Revolution. Periods Of Very Slow Changes Are Succeeded By Periods Of Violent Changes. Revolutions Are As Necessary For Evolution As The Slow Changes Which Prepare Them And Succeed Them.

In Existing States A Fresh Law Is Looked Upon As A Remedy For Evil. Instead Of Themselves Altering What Is Bad, People Begin By Demanding A Law To Alter It.

War Is The Usual Condition Of Europe.

It Is Only By The Abolition Of The State, By The Conquest Of Perfect Liberty By The Individual, By Free Agreement, Association, And Absolute Free Federation That We Can Reach Communism — The Possession In Common Of Our Social Inheritance, And The Production In Common Of All Riches.

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.