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• It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism — the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Agreement, Perfect, Liberty

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Believe, Knowing, Revolution

  Letter to a friend in November 1920. "Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović, p. 407, 1990.

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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?'

  Peter Kropotkin

  Kings, Reason, Poor

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Ideas, Action, Concrete

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• But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Children, Struggle, Taken

  "Memoirs of a Revolutionist". Book by Peter Kropotkin. Part 4, Section 3, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1899.

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• War is the usual condition of Europe.

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Europe, Usual

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• Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Rain, Sacrifice, Years

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• The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Ideas, Movement

  Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Doe, Movement, Demand

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• In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Order, Yesterday, Today

  "Anarchism: A History of Llibertarian Ideas and Movements". Book by George Woodcock, 1962.

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• While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Class, Age

  Peter Kropotkin (2002). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Government, Agreement, Law

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.284, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Past, Names

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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• 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.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Confused, Taken, Law

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Brother, Pain, Writing

  Peter Kropotkin, Georg Brandes (2009). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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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?

  Peter Kropotkin

  States, Form, Distinction

  "The State - Its Historic Role". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1897.

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• 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.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Memories, Men, Letters

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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.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Strong, Hate, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Book, Reading

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• ...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?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Lying, Sight, Horizon

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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