Peter Kropotkin Short Quotes

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When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

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The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

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Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

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The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

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The molecule becomes a particle of the universe on a microscopic scale — a microcosmosos which lives the same life.

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Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

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You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

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He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

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When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

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Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.

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You know how I always believe in the future … Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.

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Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.

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In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

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The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

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We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it.

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Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. He is a madman, an immolator, wishful of burning, and slaughter, and sacrificing.

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One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.

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Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

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