“Wage-work is serf-work; it cannot, it must not, produce all that it could produce. And it is high time to disbelieve the… — Pyotr Kropotkin Time Copy Share Image
“They say, 'No private property', and immediately after strive to maintain private property in its daily manifestations. 'You shall be a commune… — Pyotr Kropotkin Collectivism Copy Share Image
“Because, to do manual work now, means in reality to shut yourself up for ten or twelve hours a day in an… — Pyotr Kropotkin Thirty years Copy Share Image
“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even… — Pyotr Kropotkin Human race Copy Share Image
“No, plenty for all is not a dream – though it was a dream indeed in those days when man, for all… — Pyotr Kropotkin Dreams Copy Share Image
“Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in… — Pyotr Kropotkin Day life Copy Share Image
“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily… — Pyotr Kropotkin Human race Copy Share Image
“Very often the idler is but a man to whom it is repugnant to spend all his life making the eighteenth part… — Pyotr Kropotkin Life Copy Share Image
“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the… — Pyotr Kropotkin Computers Copy Share Image
“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber… — Pyotr Kropotkin History Copy Share Image
“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break… — Pyotr Kropotkin Freedom Copy Share Image
“Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than… — Pyotr Kropotkin Collectivists Copy Share Image
“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating… — Pyotr Kropotkin Economics Copy Share Image
“That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the revolution can… — Pyotr Kropotkin Revolution Copy Share Image
“The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation… — Pyotr Kropotkin Fair share Copy Share Image
“Every machine has had the same history – a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys,… — Pyotr Kropotkin Computers Copy Share Image
“The concurrence of two elements is necessary for bringing about a revolution; and by revolution I do not mean the street warfare,… — Pyotr Kropotkin Revolution Copy Share Image
“In short, the five or seven hours a day which each will have at his disposal, after having consecrated several hours to… — Pyotr Kropotkin Happiness Copy Share Image
“Fine sermons have been preached on the text that those who have should share with those who have not, but he who… — Pyotr Kropotkin Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“Having been brought up in a serf-owner's family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great… — Pyotr Kropotkin Active life Copy Share Image
“But capital goes wherever there are men, poor enough to be exploited.” — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“But today the united city has ceased to exist; there is no more communion of ideas. The town is a chance agglomeration… — Pyotr Kropotkin Communities Copy Share Image
“Man is a result of both his inherited instincts and his education. Among the miners and the seamen, their common occupations and… — Pyotr Kropotkin Courage Copy Share Image
“Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They… — Pyotr Kropotkin Great men Copy Share Image