---
title: "1 Principles Liberty Quotes By Pyotr Kropotkin"
description: "1 Principles Liberty quotes by Pyotr Kropotkin. Plus more from Pyotr Kropotkin and more Principles Liberty sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/pyotr-kropotkin-15647_freedom_should-an-authoritarian-socialist-societ_903259.jpg"
---

> [“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or to reorganize itself on principles of liberty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/should-an-authoritarian-socialist-society-ever-succeed-in/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/pyotr-kropotkin-15647_freedom_should-an-authoritarian-socialist-societ_903259.jpg)

## More by Pyotr Kropotkin

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/wage-work-is-serf-work-it-cannot-it-must-not-produce-all-that-it/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“They say, 'No private property', and immediately after strive to maintain private property in its daily manifestations. 'You shall be a commune as far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/they-say-no-private-property-and-immediately-after-strive-to-maintain/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“Because, to do manual work now, means in reality to shut yourself up for ten or twelve hours a day in an unhealthy workshop,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/because-to-do-manual-work-now-means-in-reality-to-shut-yourself-up/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/in-our-civilized-societies-we-are-rich-why-then-are-the-many-poor-why/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“No, plenty for all is not a dream – though it was a dream indeed in those days when man, for all his pains,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/no-plenty-for-all-is-not-a-dream-though-it-was-a-dream-indeed-in/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in the columns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/whole-columns-are-devoted-to-parliamentary-debates-and-to-political/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/all-that-was-once-looked-on-as-a-function-of-the-government-is-today/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“Very often the idler is but a man to whom it is repugnant to spend all his life making the eighteenth part of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/very-often-the-idler-is-but-a-man-to-whom-it-is-repugnant-to-spend/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/what-interest-in-fact-can-this-depressing-work-have-for-the-worker/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/the-history-of-human-thought-recalls-the-swinging-of-a-pendulum-which/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/should-an-authoritarian-socialist-society-ever-succeed-in/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“Well-being for all is not a dream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/well-being-for-all-is-not-a-dream/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than proclaimed, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/collectivists-begin-by-proclaiming-a-revolutionary-principle-the/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating "surplus value,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/poverty-we-have-said-elsewhere-was-the-primary-cause-of-wealth-it-was/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

> [“That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the revolution can and ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/that-we-are-utopians-is-well-known-so-utopian-are-we-that-we-go-the/)

[Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-liberty/pyotr-kropotkin/#itemlist",
            "name": "1 Principles Liberty Quotes By Pyotr Kropotkin",
            "numberOfItems": 1,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or to reorganize itself on principles of liberty.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Pyotr Kropotkin"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/should-an-authoritarian-socialist-society-ever-succeed-in/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/pyotr-kropotkin-15647_freedom_should-an-authoritarian-socialist-societ_903259.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/pyotr-kropotkin-15647_freedom_should-an-authoritarian-socialist-societ_903259.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/pyotr-kropotkin-15647_freedom_should-an-authoritarian-socialist-societ_903259.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general…” — Pyotr Kropotkin",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-liberty/pyotr-kropotkin/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-liberty/pyotr-kropotkin/",
            "name": "Principles Liberty Quotes by Pyotr Kropotkin",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-liberty/pyotr-kropotkin/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/pyotr-kropotkin-15647_freedom_should-an-authoritarian-socialist-societ_903259.jpg"
            },
            "description": "1 Principles Liberty quotes by Pyotr Kropotkin. Plus more from Pyotr Kropotkin and more Principles Liberty sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-liberty/pyotr-kropotkin/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-liberty/pyotr-kropotkin/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Principles Liberty",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-liberty/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Pyotr Kropotkin",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/principles-liberty/pyotr-kropotkin/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```