Peter Kropotkin Quote

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.


"Words of a Rebel"; as quoted in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 26


The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of...

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of...

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of...

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of...