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Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization
Peter Kropotkin
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Peter Kropotkin
Age: 78 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 9
Died: 1921
Died: February 8
Anarchist
Autobiographer
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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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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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Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
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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.
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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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Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
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Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.
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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 law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
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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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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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