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Quotes from The State — Its Historic Role — Peter Kropotkin

1842–1921 Russia

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

The State — Its Historic Role (1897)

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

The State — Its Historic Role (1897)

Between these two currents, always manifesting themselves, always at grips with each other — the popular trend and that which thirsts for political and religious domination — we have made our choice.

The State — Its Historic Role (1897)

The Roman Empire was a State in the real sense of the word. To this day it remains the legist's ideal.

The State — Its Historic Role (1897)

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)

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