All Peter Kropotkin Quotes
- 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
- Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that… Abolition
- Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison… Abolition
- No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for… Accomplished
- Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor. Everywhere
- Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as… All
- Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in… Cell
- Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization Civilization
- The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that… Adroit
- America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the… All
- Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with… All
- Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always… Always Lives
- ...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice… All
- My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of… Animated
- Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from… Advise
- He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. Addressed