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Educated men - civilized, as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.
Peter Kropotkin
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Peter Kropotkin
Age: 78 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 9
Died: 1921
Died: February 8
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
Pyotr Kropotkin
Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin
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P. A. Kropotkin
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You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'
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