Idlers Do Not Make History: They Suffer

Men Passionately Desire To Live After Death, But They Often Pass Away Without Noticing The Fact That The Memory Of A Really Good Person Always Lives. It Is Impressed Upon The Next Generation, And Is Transmitted Again To The Children. Is That Not An Immortality Worth Striving For?

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!

Each Individual Is A Cosmos Of Organs, Each Organ Is A Cosmos Of Cells, Each Cell Is A Cosmos Of Infinitely Small Ones; And In This Complex World, The Well-being Of The Whole Depends Entirely On The Sum Of Well-being Enjoyed By Each Of The Least Microscopic Particles Of Organized Matter. A Whole Revolution Is Thus Produced In The Philosophy Of Life.

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.

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.