Prisons Are Universities Of Crime, Maintained By

In Existing States A Fresh Law Is Looked Upon As A Remedy For Evil. Instead Of Themselves Altering What Is Bad, People Begin By Demanding A Law To Alter It.

Prisons Are Universities Of Crime, Maintained By The State.

Anarchy, When It Works To Destroy Authority In All Its Aspects, When It Demands The Abrogation Of Laws And The Abolition Of The Mechanism That Serves To Impose Them, When It Refuses All Hierarchical Organization And Preaches Free Agreement - At The Same Time Strives To Maintain And Enlarge The Precious Kernel Of Social Customs Without Which No Human Or Animal Society Can Exist. Only, Instead Of Demanding That Those Social Customs Should Be Maintained Through The Authority Of A Few, It Demands It From The Continued Action Of All.

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.

Educated Men - "civilized," As Fourier Used To Say With Disdain - Tremble At The Idea That Society Might Some Day Be Without Judges, Police, Or Gaolers.