Money Quotes by Pyotr Kropotkin

2 Money quotes by Pyotr Kropotkin

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“Multiply examples, choose them where you will, consider the origin of all fortunes, large or small, whether arising out of commerce, finance, manufactures or the land. Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty…

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“We hold further that Communism is not only desirable, but that existing societies, founded on Individualism, are inevitably impelled in the direction of Communism. The development of Individualism during the last three centuries is explained by the efforts of the…

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“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 represents wagedom as the best incentive to productive work. If industry nowadays brings in a hundred times more than it did in the days of our grandfathers, it is due to the sudden awakening of physical…

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“They say, 'No private property', and immediately after strive to maintain private property in its daily manifestations. 'You shall be a commune as far as regards production: fields, tools, machinery, all that has been invented up till now - factories, railways, harbours, mines, etc., all are yours. Not the slightest distinction will be made concerning the share of each in…

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“Because, to do manual work now, means in reality to shut yourself up for ten or twelve hours a day in an unhealthy workshop,…

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“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best-paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all, in return for…

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“No, plenty for all is not a dream – though it was a dream indeed in those days when man, for all his pains,…

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“Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in the columns…

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“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily and more…

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“Very often the idler is but a man to whom it is repugnant to spend all his life making the eighteenth part of a…

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“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

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“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a…

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“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or…

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“Well-being for all is not a dream.”

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