“The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.”

— Peter Kropotkin

Source: "Words of a Rebel"; as quoted in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 26

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