We Take Men For What They Are

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.

Where There Is Authority, There Is No Freedom.

Prisons Are Universities Of Crime, Maintained By The State.

Any Revolutionary Agitation Exacts Enormous Sacrifices, Not So Much In Terms Of Prison Sentences And Years Of Incarceration - Which Have Been Raining Down By The Hundreds Of Years Annually - As In Terms Of The Manifold Personal Sacrifices Sustained By Those Who Commit Themselves To Revolutionary Agitation.

A Different Conception Of Society, Very Different From That Which Now Prevails, Is In Process Of Formation. Under The Name Of Anarchy, A New Interpretation Of The Past And Present Life Of Society Arises, Giving At The Same Time A Forecast As Regards Its Future, Both Conceived In The Same Spirit As The Above-mentioned Interpretation In Natural Sciences. Anarchy, Therefore, Appears As A Constituent Part Of The New Philosophy, And That Is Why Anarchists Come In Contact, On So Many Points, With The Greatest Thinkers And Poets Of The Present Day.