Zo d'Axa

“ In truth, it isn't indispensable to feel oneself an anarchist to be seduced by the coming demolitions.
All those whom society flagellates in the very intimacy of their being instinctively want vengeance. ”

“ The temple of the Bourse—where the faithful Catholics and the fervent Jews hold their meetings for the rites and things of petty commerce—the temple of the Bourse must, in fact, disappear, and soon.
The money-handlers will in their turn be handled by the heavy caress of the crumbling stones.
Then the game of the Bourse will no longer be played; those skillful strokes that bring millions to corporations—whose reason for being is to speculate on wheat and to organize famines—will be no more. ”

“ Once again the men of the press and the police have earned the gratitude of that part of the population that doesn't yet appreciate the picturesque charm of palaces in ruin, and the strange beauty of collapsed buildings. ”