To-day as yesterday nothing is obtained except by violence; it is the one efficient instrument.

The only thing necessary is to know how to use it.
You ask what will our action be?
I will tell you: it will be to stir up the governing classes against one another, to put the army in conflict with the capitalists, the government with the magistracy, the nobility and clergy with the Jews, and if possible to drive them all to destroy one another.

To do this would be to carry on an agitation which would weaken government in the same way that fever wears out the sick.
"The Pyrot affair, little as we know how to turn it to advantage, will put forward by ten years the growth of the Social party and the emancipation of the proletariat, by disarmament, the general strike, and revolution." The leaders of the party having each expressed a different opinion, the discussion was continued, not without vivacity.

The orators, as always happens in such a case, reproduced the arguments they had already brought forward, though with less order and moderation than before.

The dispute was prolonged and none changed his opinion.