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Peter Kropotkin Quotes

1842–1921 Russia

Russia
Anarchists
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Communists

Also known as: Kropotkin, Pyotr Kropotkin

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Vladimir Ilyich, your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.

The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening.

Anarchist Morality (1890)

She starts research in new paths, enriches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences.

Anarchist Morality (1890)

The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception.

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)

One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)

The landlord owes his riches to the poverty of the peasants, and the wealth of the capitalist comes from the same source.

The Conquest of Bread (1892)

All human societies have passed through this primitive phase, and to this day a large proportion of mankind have no written law.

Law and Authority (1886)

When men are reasonable enough to follow their natural instincts, they will unite across the frontiers and constitute the Cosmos.

Relatively speaking, law is a product of modern times.

Law and Authority (1886)

Take any work on astronomy of the last century, or the beginning of ours. You will no longer find in it, it goes without saying, our tiny planet placed in the center of the universe.

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)

A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation.

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)

It is especially in the domain of ethics that the dominating importance of the mutual-aid principle appears in full.

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)

Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)

Thousands of inventors, known and unknown, who have died in poverty, have co-operated in the invention of each of these machines which embody the genius of men.

The Conquest of Bread (1892)

There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable.

The Spirit of Revolt (1880)

Political economy never rises above the hypothesis of a limited and insufficient supply of the necessities of life; it takes it for granted.

Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)

The State idea means something quite different from the idea of government.

The State — Its Historic Role (1897)

Anarchy leads to Communism, and Communism to Anarchy, both alike being expressions of the predominant tendency in modern societies, the pursuit of equality.

The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all.

The Conquest of Bread (1892)

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