“We are convinced that the education of the future will be of an entirely spontaneous nature; certainly we can not as yet realize it, but the evolution of methods in the direction of a wider comprehension of the phenomena of life, and the fact that all advances toward perfection mean the overcoming of restraint,--all this indicates that we are in the right when we hope for the deliverance of the child through science.”
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“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
― In Russian and French Prisons
― In Russian and French Prisons
“If there is a State, there must be the domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.”
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“No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world, I cleave to no system, I am a true seeker.”
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