Peter Kropotkin Quotes

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• Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Spring, Poverty, Wealth

  Peter Kropotkin (2016). “The Conquest of Bread”, p.84, Peter Kropotkin

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• The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Revolution, Hopeless, Revolt

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• Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Anarchy, Authority, Heresy

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• Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Civilization, Competition

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• The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Respect, Government, Law

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

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• America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Country, Freedom, America

  Speech on September 26, 1891. "Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović, p. 269, 1990.

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• Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Wisdom, Teacher, Thinking

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• Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Animal, Agreement, Law

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1898.

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• It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Mistake

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.143, Courier Corporation

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• Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Rights, Class

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• Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Prison, Crime, States

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.468, Courier Corporation

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• When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!

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  Dream, Reality, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

  Peter Kropotkin

  Suffering, Idlers

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The Right to work," or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Needs, World

  "The Conquest of Bread". Book by Peter Kropotkin, p. 14, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1907.

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• Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

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  Firsts, Causes, Riches

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• The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Believe, School, Sight

  "The State: Its Historic Role". Book by Peter Kropotkin, www.panarchy.org. 1897.

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• True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Lying, Simple, Progress

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.286, Courier Corporation

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• Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.

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  Struggle, Giving, Joy

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

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  Food, People, Judging

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• It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Dream, Color, Prejudice

  Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Law, Society

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

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• Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can re-trace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support- not mutual struggle- has had the leading part.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Struggle, Men, Mutual Support

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Revolutionary, Figures, Ideals

  "Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 407, 1990.

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• The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Important, Done, Movement

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• In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, People, Evil

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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