Government Quotes by Peter Kropotkin

8 Government quotes by Peter Kropotkin

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If you’re looking for a short, sharp critique of state authority from a classic thinker, Kropotkin’s eight quotes deliver that perspective in a few lines.

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But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across…

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The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between…

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Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its…

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We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and…

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The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection…

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As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

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

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ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct…

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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…

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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…

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“The prison population consists of heterogeneous elements; but, taking only those who are usually described as 'the criminals' proper, and of whom we have…

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Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

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“It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge of this…

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“And by that habit of submission, with which we are only too familiar, the thought of the next generation retains this religious twist, which…

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“Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past, it no longer recognizes a division…

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“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as she nears…

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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…

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But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent?…

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In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to…

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All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their…

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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…

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