The Immense And Ever Increasing

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!

It Is Often Said That Anarchists Live In A World Of Dreams To Come, And Do Not See The Things Which Happen Today. We Do See Them Only Too Well, And In Their True Colors, And That Is What Makes Us Carry The Hatchet Into The Forest Of Prejudice That Besets Us.

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!

All This We See, And, Therefore, Instead Of Inanely Repeating The Old Formula, "respect The Law," We Say, "despise Law And All Its Attributes!" In Place Of The Cowardly Phrase, "obey The Law," Our Cry, Is "revolt Against All Laws!"

My Brother Could Not Write About Trifles. Even In Society He Became Animated Only When Some Serious Discussion Was Engaged In, And He Complained Of Feeling 'a Dull Pain In The Brain'--a Physical Pain, As He Used To Say--when He Was With People Who Cared Only For Small Talk.