

“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.”
― Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
― Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
― In Russian and French Prisons
― In Russian and French Prisons

“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”
― Memoirs of a Revolutionist
― Memoirs of a Revolutionist

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
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“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Crush
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Crush
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