Anarchism is noble as a manifestation of revolt against the unjust and usurping power relations on which society rests. Men like Stirner, Thoreau, and Proudhon denounce and demolish all the hypocrisy that covers the false arguments that sustain the exploitation of liberties. These are men who flatly refuse to accept as normal a state of systematic abuse in which, on the one hand, a few usurpers enjoy, and on the other, the powerless usurped suffer. Such men are, to say like Nietzsche, free spirits, who would not think twice about preferring death to an existence of dishonor and slavery.