"Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!" — Peter Kropotkin
"Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!"
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Peter Kropotkin
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48 Quotes by Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin has 48 quotes on this site.
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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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More History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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