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Have not prisons — which kill all will and force of character in man,…

Quote byPeter Kropotkin · 1842–1921

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896).

English (original)

Have not prisons — which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe — always been universities of crime? Is not the court of a tribunal a school of ferocity?

— Peter Kropotkin

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