"When we ask for the abolition of the……" — Peter Kropotkin
"When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!"
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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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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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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There…
— Jonathan Schell
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
— Ronald Reagan
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.…
— Karl Marx
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of…
— George Washington
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave…
— Margaret E. Knight
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of…
— Henry George
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