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There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence. Hence I cannot accept either nihilists or anarchists who choose violence as a means of action.

— Jacques Ellul Anarchy and Christianity [Anarchie et Christianisme (1988)

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