“When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!”

— Peter Kropotkin

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)

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