"My brother could not write about trifles. Even……" — Peter Kropotkin
"My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of feeling 'a dull pain in the brain'--a physical pain, as he used to say--when he was with people who cared only for small talk."
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Peter Kropotkin
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48 Quotes by Peter Kropotkin
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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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