"The law is an adroit mixture of customs……" — Peter Kropotkin
"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 are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
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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 Adroit Quotes
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be…
— Martin Luther
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A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such…
— Chuck Klosterman
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To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be…
— Aleister Crowley
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Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with…
— Marquis de Sade
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