“...this 'fecundity of will,' this thirst for action, when accompanied by poverty of feeling and intellect incapable of creation, will produce nothing but a Napoleon I or a Bismarck, wiseacres who try to force the world to progress backwards. While… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“What is all the enormous amount of activity spent uselessly in politics every day but an expression of the need to lend a hand to the coach of humanity, or at least to buzz around it . Of course this… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to reckon in figures the extent to which wealth is restricted indirectly, the extent to which energy is squandered, that might… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The prison population consists of heterogeneous elements; but, taking only those who are usually described as 'the criminals' proper, and of whom we have… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge of this… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“And by that habit of submission, with which we are only too familiar, the thought of the next generation retains this religious twist, which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past, it no longer recognizes a division… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as she nears… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent?… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
