List of Peter Kropotkin Quotes

He Objected, Though, To Indiscriminate Reading. 'one Must Have Some Question,' He Wrote, 'addressed To The Book One Is Going To Read.

...do Not The Bewitching Power Of All Studies Lie In That They Continually Open Up To Us New, Unsuspected Horizons, Not Yet Understood, Which Entice Us To Proceed Further And Further In The Penetration Of What Appears At First Sight Only In Vague Outline?

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.

The Confused Mass Of Rules Of Conduct Called Law, Which Has Been Bequeathed To Us By Slavery, Serfdom, Feudalism, And Royalty, Has Taken The Place Of Those Stone Monsters, Before Whom Human Victims Used To Be Immolated, And Whom Slavish Savages Dared Not Even Touch Lest They Should Be Slain By The Thunderbolts Of Heaven.

Sometimes He Would Advise Me To Read Poetry, And Would Send Me In His Letters Quantities Of Verses And Whole Poems, Which He Wrote From Memory. 'read Poetry,' He Wrote: 'poetry Makes Men Better.' How Often, In My Later Life, I Realized The Truth Of This Remark Of His! Read Poetry: It Makes Men Better.

But How Do European Railways Manage Without Them? How Do They Continue To Convey Millions Of Travellers And Mountains Of Luggage Across A Continent? If Companies Owning Railways Have Been Able To Agree, Why Should Railway Workers, Who Would Take Possession Of Railways, Not Agree Likewise? And If The Petersburg-warsaw Company And That Of Paris-belfort Can Act In Harmony, Without Giving Themselves The Luxury Of A Common Commander, Why, In The Midst Of Our Societies, Consisting Of Groups Of Free Workers, Should We Need A Government?

War Is The Usual Condition Of Europe.

You Reason Like The King, Who, Being Sent Across The Frontier, Called Out, 'what Will Become Of My Poor Subjects Without Me?'

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.

Vladimir Ilyich [lenin], Your Concrete Actions Are Completely Unworthy Of The Ideas You Pretend To Hold.

A Different Conception Of Society, Very Different From That Which Now Prevails, Is In Process Of Formation. Under The Name Of Anarchy, A New Interpretation Of The Past And Present Life Of Society Arises, Giving At The Same Time A Forecast As Regards Its Future, Both Conceived In The Same Spirit As The Above-mentioned Interpretation In Natural Sciences. Anarchy, Therefore, Appears As A Constituent Part Of The New Philosophy, And That Is Why Anarchists Come In Contact, On So Many Points, With The Greatest Thinkers And Poets Of The Present Day.

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.