Quote#Wisdom
If you admit such methods, one can foresee that one day you will use…
Quote byPeter Kropotkin · 1842–1921
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Vladimir Lenin (21 December 1920); as quoted in Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel (1990) by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 426.
English (original)
If you admit such methods, one can foresee that one day you will use torture, as was done in the Middle Ages.
— Peter Kropotkin
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