"Consequently, the life of the Christian peoples is an absolute contradiction between their profession and the basis of their life; contradiction between love recognized as the law of life and violence recognised as inevitable in different departments of life: like Governments, Tribunals, Army, etc. which are recognized and praised. [...]

Either it must be admitted that we do not recognize any discipline, religious or moral, and that we are guided in the organisation of life only by the law of force or that all the taxes that we exact by force, the judicial and police organisation and above all the army must be abolished."