strongly-centralized

Updated: June 9, 2025

For two or three hundred years they taught from the pulpit, the University chair, and the judges' bench, that salvation must be sought for in a strongly-centralized State, placed under a semi-divine authority; that one man can and must be the saviour of society, and that in the name of public salvation he can commit any violence: burn men and women at the stake, make them perish under indescribable tortures, plunge whole provinces into the most abject misery.

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin - Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution