"True progress lies in the direction of decentralization,……" — Peter Kropotkin
"True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery."
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48 Quotes by Peter Kropotkin
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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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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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