"Man is appealed to be guided in his……" — 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 of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can re-trace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support- not mutual struggle- has had the leading part."
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Peter Kropotkin
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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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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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The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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