"Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in……" — Peter Kropotkin
"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 serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all."
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48 Quotes by Peter Kropotkin
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The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages…
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War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.
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Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.
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Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best…
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You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects…
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Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find…
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When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the…
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It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free…
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In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead…
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But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for…
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Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
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Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal…
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the…
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.…
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of…
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave…
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