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We thus see that the over-population fallacy does not stand the very first attempt at submitting it to a closer examination.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. He is a madman, an immolator, wishful of burning, and slaughter, and sacrificing.
Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel (1990)
But side by side with these customs, necessary to the life of societies and the preservation of the race, other desires, other passions, and therefore other habits and customs, are evolved in human association.
Law and Authority (1886)
The soil was made to such an amount out of forcing beds that every year 250 cubic yards of loam had been sold.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
Governmental Communism, like theocratic Communism, is repugnant to the worker.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
What forms will this action take? All forms, — indeed, the most varied forms, dictated by circumstances, temperament, and the means at disposal.
The Spirit of Revolt (1880)
Our society seems no longer able to understand that it is possible to exist otherwise than under the reign of law, elaborated by a representative government and administered by a handful of rulers.
Law and Authority (1886)
A single law, that imposed by Rome, dominated that Empire which did not represent a confederation of fellow citizens but was simply a herd of subjects.
The State — Its Historic Role (1897)
What economists call over-production is but a production that is above the purchasing power of the worker, who is reduced to poverty by Capital and State.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
When a physiologist speaks now of the life of a plant or of an animal, he sees rather an agglomeration, a colony of millions of separate individuals than a personality one and indivisible.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Millions of human beings have labored to create this civilization on which we pride ourselves today. Other millions, scattered through the globe, labor to maintain it. Without them nothing would be left in fifty years but ruins.
The Conquest of Bread (1892)
In virtue of this monstrous system, the son of the worker, on entering life, finds no field which he may till, no machine which he may tend, no mine in which he may dog, without accepting to leave a great part of what he will produce to a master.
The Conquest of Bread (1892)
The house was not built by its owner. It was erected, decorated, and furnished by innumerable workers — in the timber yard, the brick field, and the workshop, toiling for dear life at a minimum wage.
The Conquest of Bread (1892)
These societies already begin to encroach everywhere on the functions of the State, and strive to substitute free action of volunteers for that of a centralized State.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
More than a century has passed since science laid down sound propositions as to the origins of the universe, but how many have mastered them or possess the really scientific spirit of criticism?
An Appeal to the Young (1880)
There is not even a thought, or an invention, which is not common property, born of the past and the present. 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 man.
The Conquest of Bread (1892)
It is absolutely incomprehensible to us that intelligent men — and such are not wanting in the collectivist party — can remain partisans of national or municipal parliaments after all the lessons history has given them — in France, in England, in Germany, or in the United States.
The Conquest of Bread (1892)
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.
An Appeal to the Young (1880)
Our whole education — made, be it noted, by Church and State, in the interests of both — revolts at this conception.
Is it less true for that?
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
I of course take a negative attitude about a great deal that is happening, and I have said so directly and frankly to many of those who stand at the head of government.