The Three Eras (May 22, 1848)
What does anarchy mean in the streets, if not the absence of informers and armed police? But if, without armed police, without informers, without gendarmes, order reigns in the streets; if no one is robbed there, if no one is murdered there, if no one is insulted there, will the population not h
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Pierre Mualdes, “Etre anarchiste / To Be an Anarchist” (1924)
To be an anarchist is to be individualist, first of all. It is oneself that one is most keen to liberate, but as one's total emancipation is intimately linked to that of one's neighbors, one is communist by force
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Tomás Ibáñez, “Pourquoi j’ai choisi l’anarchie / Why I Have Chosen Anarchy” (1962)
If, among the wide range of ideas that have presented themselves to me, I have finally chosen the libertarian ideal, it is because, like every person on the planet, I am fundamentally
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Why I Am an Anarchist (Four Statements, 1885-1951)
I am an anarchist because I think with despair of all the poor kids who, every year, enter the great stupefying machine, who will never know the intoxication of a free and fraternal life, who will
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Charles Theivon, “Etre anarchist / To Be an Anarchist” (1924)
Etre anarchiste
Si, après avoir réuni plusieurs camarades libertaires, vous demandez à chacun quelle est leur manière d’être anarchiste, vous serez amenés fatalement à faire une constatation importante qui est celle-ci :
Aucune des
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Robert Dulud, “Etre Anarchiste / To Be an Anarchist” (1924)
To be an anarchist, it is not enough to scream at all the echoes that you are an anarchist, to go up to the rostrum, to utter a bunch of stupidities, to read the Libertaire more or less frequently.
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P. W. Grayson, “Vice Unmasked” (1830)
VICE UNMASKED,
AN ESSAY:
BEING A CONSIDERATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF LAW UPON THE MORAL ESSENCE OF MAN, WITH OTHER REFLECTIONS.
BY P. W. GRAYSON.
Est autem Virtus nihil alind, quam in se perfecta, et ad summum perfecta Natura. CICERO.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY GEORGE H. EVANS, FOR THE AUTHOR.
1830.

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