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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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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.
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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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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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War is the usual condition of Europe.
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War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.
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All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In place of the cowardly phrase, Obey the law, our cry, is Revolt against all laws!
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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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As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.
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It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.
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Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
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Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization
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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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The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.
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The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.
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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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Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.
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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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The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.
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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.
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