Peter Kropotkin Quotes

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• The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations,…
• War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.
• Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.
• Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception…
• You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'
• Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything…
• When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall…
• It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free…
• In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the…
• But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread;…
• Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
• Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
• The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in…
• All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength,…
• You know how I always believe in the future... Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do…
• The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
• All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In…
• When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men…
• But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If…
• There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its…

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