Idlers Do Not Make History: They Suffer

When We Ask For The Abolition Of The State And Its Organs We Are Always Told That We Dream Of A Society Composed Of Men Better Than They Are In Reality. But No; A Thousand Times, No. All We Ask Is That Men Should Not Be Made Worse Than They Are, By Such Institutions!

Man Is Appealed To Be Guided In His Acts, Not Merely By Love, Which Is Always Personal, Or At Best Tribal, But By His Perception Of His Oneness With Each Human Being. In The Practice Of Mutual Aid, Which We Can Re-trace To The Earliest Beginnings Of Evolution, We Thus Find The Positive And Undoubted Origin Of Our Ethical Conceptions; And We Can Affirm That In The Ethical Progress Of Man, Mutual Support- Not Mutual Struggle- Has Had The Leading Part.

Freedom Of The Press, Freedom Of Association, The Inviolability Of Domicile, And All The Rest Of The Rights Of Man Are Respected So Long As No One Tries To Use Them Against The Privileged Class. On The Day They Are Launched Against The Privileged They Are Overthrown.

...do Not The Bewitching Power Of All Studies Lie In That They Continually Open Up To Us New, Unsuspected Horizons, Not Yet Understood, Which Entice Us To Proceed Further And Further In The Penetration Of What Appears At First Sight Only In Vague Outline?

Competition Is The Law Of The Jungle, But Cooperation Is The Law Of Civilization