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1 'Anarchism'
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Only liberty, equality and sympathy can stand up to anti-social people
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Full Idea:
Liberty, equality and practical human sympathy are the only effective barriers we can oppose to the anti-social instincts of certain among us.
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From:
Peter (Pyotr) Kropotkin (Law and Authority [1886], 1 'Anarchism'), quoted by Jonathan Wolff - An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Rev)
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A reaction:
One might state it more succinctly as 'only the social can oppose the anti-social'. The dominance in society of essentially anti-social people seems to have become a major political fact in 2017, in the UK and the USA.
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