Where There Is Authority, There Is No

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.

But What Right Had I To These Highest Joys, When All Around Me Was Nothing But Misery And Struggle For A Moldy Bit Of Bread; When Whatsoever I Should Spend To Enable Me To Live In That World Of Higher Emotions Must Needs Be Taken From The Very Mouths Of Those Who Grew The Wheat And Had Not Bread Enough For Their Children?

...do Not The Bewitching Power Of All Studies Lie In That They Continually Open Up To Us New, Unsuspected Horizons, Not Yet Understood, Which Entice Us To Proceed Further And Further In The Penetration Of What Appears At First Sight Only In Vague Outline?

I Understand Regicide As A Means Of Obtaining Vengeance For The Ruin Of Our Lives, But Regicide As A Means Of Obtaining Political Freedom I Could Never Understand.

You Reason Like The King, Who, Being Sent Across The Frontier, Called Out, 'what Will Become Of My Poor Subjects Without Me?'