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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
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Peter Kropotkin
Age: 78 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 9
Died: 1921
Died: February 8
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
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Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin
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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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As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.
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I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.
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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?
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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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The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.
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Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
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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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Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
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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?
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If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.
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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.
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Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.
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Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.
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The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.
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It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.
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True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.
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Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.
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