Peter Kropotkin

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

— Peter Kropotkin

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

— Peter Kropotkin

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

— Peter Kropotkin

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.

— Peter Kropotkin

“variety is life; uniformity is death”

— peter kropotkin

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

— Peter Kropotkin

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

— Peter Kropotkin

As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

— Peter Kropotkin

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

— Peter Kropotkin

The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path…

— Peter Kropotkin

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

— 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

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as…

— Peter Kropotkin

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

— 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

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

— Peter Kropotkin

You know how I always believe in the future... Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope,…

— Peter Kropotkin

It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen…

— Peter Kropotkin

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no…

— 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

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are…

— Peter Kropotkin

“It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long…

— Peter Kropotkin

In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people…

— 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

Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which…

— Peter Kropotkin

ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct…

— 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

“Another general favorite in our circle was Sergei Kravchinsky, who became so well know, both in England and in the United States,…

— Peter Kropotkin

But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing…

— Peter Kropotkin

Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made…

— Peter Kropotkin

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been…

— Peter Kropotkin

But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy…

— 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

“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

“The principle of equality sums up the teachings of moralists. But it also contains something more. This something more is respect for…

— Peter Kropotkin

“On Turgenev: He knew from Lavrov that I was an enthusiastic admirer of his writings; and one day, as we were returning…

— 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

“It often happens that men pull in a certain political, social, or familiar harness simply because they never have time to ask…

— 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

“To seek pleasure, to avoid pain, is the general line of action (some would say law) of the organic world. Without this…

— Peter Kropotkin