Peter Kropotkin

“It is impossible to reckon in figures the extent to which wealth is restricted indirectly, the extent to which energy is squandered,…

— Peter Kropotkin

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand…

— Peter Kropotkin

The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of…

— Peter Kropotkin

“The prison population consists of heterogeneous elements; but, taking only those who are usually described as 'the criminals' proper, and of whom…

— Peter Kropotkin

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

— Peter Kropotkin

“It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge…

— Peter Kropotkin

“And by that habit of submission, with which we are only too familiar, the thought of the next generation retains this religious…

— Peter Kropotkin

“Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past, it no longer recognizes…

— Peter Kropotkin

“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as…

— Peter Kropotkin

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed,…

— Peter Kropotkin

But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across…

— Peter Kropotkin

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between…

— Peter Kropotkin

In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back…

— Peter Kropotkin

All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure…

— Peter Kropotkin

Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but…

— Peter Kropotkin

The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived…

— Peter Kropotkin

War is the usual condition of Europe.

— Peter Kropotkin

“Equality in mutual relations with the solidarity arising from it, this is the most powerful weapon of the animal world in the…

— Peter Kropotkin

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

— Peter Kropotkin

“One more impression I gathered from that work of my boyhood, an impression which I did not formulate till afterward, and which…

— Peter Kropotkin

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

— Peter Kropotkin

If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them…

— Peter Kropotkin

Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its…

— Peter Kropotkin

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

— Peter Kropotkin

“Ever reviled, accursed,-n'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, and…

— Peter Kropotkin