“Fine sermons have been preached on the text that those who have should share with those who have not, but he who would act out this principle is speedily informed that these beautiful sentiments are all very well in poetry,… — 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
