“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Very often the idler is but a man to whom it is repugnant to spend all his life making the eighteenth part… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Having been brought up in a serf-owner's family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“It seems to us that there is only one answer to this question: we must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that everyone, whatever… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Of course the no-government ethics will meet with at least as many objections as the no-capital economics. Our minds have been so… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Struggle! To struggle is to live, and the fiercer the struggle the intenser the life. Then you will have lived; and a… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The most important economy, the only reasonable one, is to make life pleasant for all, because the man who is satisfied with… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Man is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Wage-work is serf-work; it cannot, it must not, produce all that it could produce. And it is high time to disbelieve the legend which… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“They say, 'No private property', and immediately after strive to maintain private property in its daily manifestations. 'You shall be a commune as far… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Because, to do manual work now, means in reality to shut yourself up for ten or twelve hours a day in an unhealthy workshop,… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“No, plenty for all is not a dream – though it was a dream indeed in those days when man, for all his pains,… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in the columns… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily and more… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Very often the idler is but a man to whom it is repugnant to spend all his life making the eighteenth part of a… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
