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Jesus does not advocate revolt or material conflict.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
We can denounce not merely the abuses of power but power itself.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
All national rulers, no matter what the nation or the political regime, lord it over their subjects. There can be no political power without tyranny.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
It is impossible for the state or society or an institution to be Christian. Since being Christian presupposes an act of faith, it is plainly impossible for an abstraction like the state.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
I believe that the anarchist fight, the struggle for an anarchist society, is essential, but I also think that the realizing of such a society is impossible.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
We must unmask the ideological falsehoods of the many powers, and especially we must show that the famous theory of the rule of law which lulls the democracies is a lie from beginning to end.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
Set up a marginal society which will not be interested in such things, in which there will be no power, authority or hierarchy. Do not do things as they are usually done in society, which you cannot change. Create another society on another foundation.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
The Jews ... primarily see in God not the universal Creator but their Liberator.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
Why freedom? If we accept that God is love, and that it is human beings who are to respond to this love, the explanation is simple. Love cannot be forced, ordered, or made obligatory. It is necessarily free. If God liberates, it is because he expects and hopes that we will come to know him and love him.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)
In his cynical way Napoleon said that the clergy control the people, the bishops the clergy, and he himself the bishops. No one could state more clearly the real situation that the church was an agent of state propaganda.
Anarchy and Christianity (1988)