No, citizens, as long as society enforces the law of retaliation, as long as religion and law, the barracks and the court, prison and the industrial torture chamber, the press and the school continue to teach the utmost contempt for the life of the individual - do not expect those who have rebelled against this society to respect them!

It would be like demanding from them kindness and magnanimity to a degree infinitely higher than that which all of society possesses.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]