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Men Quotes by Peter Kropotkin
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with…
- 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…
- 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…
- The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that…
More Men Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle