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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
By: | Peter Kropotkin (more quotes by Peter Kropotkin or books by/about Peter Kropotkin) |
[Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin] (1842-1921) Russian zoologist, activist, philosopher, economist, writer, scientist, evolutionary theorist, geographer and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists | |
Source: | Words of a Rebel |
Categories: | Coercion, Force, Law, Society, Terrorism, Tradition |
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