Do away with emperors, kings, and artificial government; establish true equality; abolish capitalism; live in God’s heart, simply and purely!

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

They need only to give up the idea of forcing us to acquiesce to their groups and series, their socialized projects, their free- credit banks, their Graeco-Roman concept of morality, and their commercial regulations. I ask

I think we should keep politics out of church, and back in hell where it belongs.

If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such a system would from the outset take over all the psychological characteristics of religion — the same sanctity, rigidity and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought — for its own defence. You have to have something of the kind in order to meet the requirements of education. And you cannot do without education.

Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!

The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization, because organization just causes trouble. People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action.

God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of humans are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with the quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!
And, now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Simply do this: be still and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is, all concepts you have learned about the world, all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. 8

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only <i>ours</i> when we have it – when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc., – in short, when it is <i>used</i> by us. Although private property itself again conceives all these direct realizations of possession only as <i>means of life</i>, and the life which they serve as means is the <i>life of private property</i> – labour and conversion into capital.

In the place of <i>all</i> physical and mental senses there has therefore come the sheer estrangement of <i>all</i> these senses, the sense of <i>having</i>. The human being had to be reduced to this absolute poverty in order that he might yield his inner wealth to the outer world.

The abolition of private property is therefore the complete <i>emancipation</i> of all human senses and qualities, but it is this emancipation precisely because these senses and attributes have become, subjectively and objectively, <i>human</i>. The eye has become a <i>human</i> eye, just as its <i>object</i> has become a social, <i>human</i> object – an object made by man for man. The <i>senses</i> have therefore become directly in their practice <i>theoreticians</i>. They relate themselves to the thing for the sake of the thing, but the thing itself is an <i>objective human</i> relation to itself and to man, and vice versa. Need or enjoyment have consequently lost its <i>egotistical</i> nature, and nature has lost its mere <i>utility</i> by use becoming <i>human</i> use.

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

We wish to break with all aspects of the liberal State: with its welfare and its warfare, its monopoly privileges and its egalitarianism, its repression of victimless crimes whether personal or economic. Only we offer technology without technocracy, growth without pollution, liberty without chaos, law without tyranny, the defense of property rights in one’s person and in one’s material possessions.

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.