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Quotes from Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist — Alexander Berkman

1870–1936 United States

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"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912)

It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Berkman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.