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Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor. Peter Kropotkin. Spring, Poverty, Wealth. Peter Kropotkin (2016). “The Conquest of Bread”, p.84, Peter Kropotkin. 126 Copy quote. The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope. Peter Kropotkin. Revolution, Hopeless, Revolt.
- An Appeal to The Young
- The Spirit of Revolt
- Law and Authority
- Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
- The State — Its Historic Role
- The Conquest of Bread
- Fields, Factories and Workshops
- Memoirs of A Revolutionist
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Full text online More than a century has passed since science laid down sound propositions as to the origins of the universe, but how many have mastered them or possess the really scientific spirit of criticism?A few thousands at the outside, who are lost in the midst of hundreds of millions still steeped in prejudices and superstitions worthy of s...
Full text online There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable.New ideas germinate everywhere, seeking to force their way into the light, to find an application in life; everywhere they are opposed by the inertia of those whose interest it is to maintain the ol...
Law and Authority (1886), as translated in Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets(1927) edited by Roger N. Baldwin 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. … In short, a law everywhere and for everything! A law about fashions, a law abou...
A lecture prepared for March 1896 which Kropotkin was prevented from delivering. Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1898 edition, translated from the German by Harry Lyman Koopman); (1896 translation) It is not without a certain hesitation that I have decided to take the philosophy and ideal of Anarchy as the subject of this lecture. Those who ar...
Full text online It is above all over the question of the State that socialists are divided. Two main currents can be discerned in the factions that exist among us which correspond to differences in temperament as well as in ways of thinking, but above all to the extent that one believes in the coming revolution. There are those, on the one hand, w...
Full text online at Anarchist Archives The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all. All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their ...
: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work. Beginning as a series of articles published 1888-1890, these were collected as a book in 1899 and later published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York, 1912 (text available online). An even later edition was published in 1974 by George Allen and Unwi...
Online text Having been brought up in a serf-owner's family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great deal of confidence in the necessity of commanding, ordering, scolding, punishing, and the like. But when, at an early stage, I had to manage serious enterprises and to deal with men, and when each mistake would lead at onc...
Online text In the animal world we have seen that the vast majority of species live in societies, and that they find in association the best arms for the struggle for life: understood, of course, in its wide Darwinian sense — not as a struggle for the sheer means of existence, but as a struggle against all natural conditions unfavourable to the spe...
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- “Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.” ― Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons.
- “It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.” ― Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings.
- “The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable.
- “Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives.
Peter Kropotkin Quotes - BrainyQuote. Russian - Revolutionary December 9, 1842 - February 8, 1921. America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. Peter Kropotkin.
- Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
- 1902
- “The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.”
- “Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!” ― Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.
- “in the long run the practice of solidarity proves much more advantageous to the species than the development of individuals endowed with predatory inclinations.”
- “The species in which peace and mutual support are the rule, prosper, while the unsociable species decay.” ― Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.
Peter Kropotkin. As man does not live in a solitary state, habits and feeling develop within him which are useful for the preservation of society and the propagation of the race. Without social feelings and usages life in common would have been absolutely impossible. It is not law which has established them; they are anterior to all law.
Peter Kropotkin, born on December 9, 1842, in Moscow, Russia, was a Russian anarchist, geographer, and philosopher. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in anarchist theory and activism. Kropotkin came from a noble background, belonging to the Russian aristocracy.
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