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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail BakuninAbout author
- Author's profession: Revolutionary, Writer, Philosopher
- Nationality: russian
- Born: May 30, 1814
- Died: June 13, 1876
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