All Peter Kropotkin Quotes
- 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,… Bankruptcy
- War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand. Causes
- Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities. Always Made
- 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… Acts
- You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?' Across
- 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… All
- 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… Bite
- 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… Abolition
- 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… Back Tomorrow
- 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;… All
- Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. Action
- Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle. Aid
- The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in… Anarchist
- 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,… All
- 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… Always Believe
- The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. Civilizing
- 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… All
- 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… Abolition
- 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… Able
- 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… Achieve
- True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of… Both
- Where there is authority, there is no freedom. Authority
- Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by… Agitation
- In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding… Alter
- Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! History