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"We certainly foresaw that if full freedom were left to the individual for the expression of his ideas and for action, we should have to face a certain amount of extravagant exageration of our principles. I had seen it in the nihilist movement in Russia.  But we trusted - and experience has proved that we were right - that social life itself, supported by a frank, open-minded criticism of opinions and actions, would be the most effective means for threshing out opinions and for divesting them of the unavoidable exaggerations.  We acted, in fact, in accordance with the old saying that freedom remains still the wisest cure for freedom's temporary inconveniences."

Petr Kropotkin 1899 "Memoirs of a Revolutionist"