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Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
Peter Kropotkin
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Peter Kropotkin
Age: 78 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 9
Died: 1921
Died: February 8
Anarchist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
Pyotr Kropotkin
Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin
P. Kropotkin
P. A. Kropotkin
Prince Peter Krapotkin
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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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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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The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.
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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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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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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.
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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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Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
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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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Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.
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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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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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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.
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