Quote#Truth
"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies…
Quote byAlexander Berkman · 1870–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912), Ch. 18: "The Solitary".
English (original)
"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
— Alexander Berkman
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