Quote#Truth
We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice…
Quote byPeter Kropotkin · 1842–1921
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 1 : Our Riches.
English (original)
We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice of a double-faced morality. And since the brain is ill at ease among lies, we cheat ourselves with sophistry. Hypocrisy and sophistry become the second nature of the civilized man. But a society cannot live thus; it must return to truth or cease to exist.
— Peter Kropotkin
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