Peter Kropotkin Quotes

“That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we believe the revolution must guarantee housing, food, and clothes to all”

 “Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.”

“Where there is authority, there is no freedom.”

“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”

“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.”



“It is only those who do nothing who make no mistake.”

“Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. In this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give. “

“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 center to the periphery.”