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Quote from Peter Kropotkin,


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.



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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

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Words of a Rebel

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Coercion, Force, Law, Society, Terrorism, Tradition

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