“The outbreak of war – the most solemn denial of the principle “si vis pace para bellum” [if you want peace, prepare for war] – was therefore received with the idea that with one evil, a greater evil would be avoided in the future.”

“We have no sympathy whatever with the ‘libertarians’ – be they Socialists, Anarchists or what not – whose philosophic internationalism somersaults into rankest chauvinism the moment it is put to the practical test.”

“Our voices as anti-militarists, as Anarchists and free thinkers must be raised much louder and more powerfully in all the countries where burns the torch of the war, and also where the torch is still to be lit.”

“…considering the impossibility, at least for the ordinary workman, of verifying in time who is the real aggressor, practically means that Kropotkin’s ‘anti-militarist’ ought always to obey the orders of his government.”

“The slogan of the revolutionaries is this: The present war is waged for the benefit of the rich. Let us fight to the death here, rather than die in the European trenches.”

“But when a country arms itself to the teeth, conscripts its men, organises its production according to war needs. it is folly to hope that war will not follow.”