Religion Is Collective Insanity.

To Revolt Is A Natural Tendency Of Life. Even A Worm Turns Against The Foot That Crushes It. In General, The Vitality And Relative Dignity Of An Animal Can Be Measured By The Intensity Of Its Instinct To Revolt.

If You Took The Most Ardent Revolutionary, Vested Him In Absolute Power, Within A Year He Would Be Worse Than The Tsar Himself.

The State Is A Force Incarnate. Worse, It Is The Silly Parading Of Force. It Never Seeks To Prevail By Persuasion. Whenever It Thrusts Its Finger Into Anything It Does So In The Most Unfriendly Way. Its Essence Is Command And Compulsion.

They Maintain That Only A Dictatorship - Their Dictatorship, Of Course - Can Create The Will Of The People, While Our Answer To This Is: No Dictatorship Can Have Any Other Aim But That Of Self-perpetuation, And It Can Beget Only Slavery In The People Tolerating It; Freedom Can Be Created Only By Freedom, That Is, By A Universal Rebellion On The Part Of The People And Free Organization Of The Toiling Masses From The Bottom Up.

The Individual Who Dares Commit A Crime Is Guilty In A Two-fold Sense; First, He Is Guilty Against Human Conscience, And, Above All, He Is Guilty Against The State In Arrogating To Himself One Of Its Most Precious Privileges.