“The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.” MindBelieveEndsStatesSchoolLostViewsConceptsHatredSightNotionRevolutionaryPettyAnarchismAnarchistServitudeUnleashing Author:Peter Kropotkin
“A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.” GivingDifferentPhilosophyPastSpiritNamesProcessNaturalPoetRegardAriseContactInterpretationConceptionThinkerAnarchyAnarchismAnarchistFormationPresent DayConstituentsPast And PresentNatural ScienceForecastsPresent Life Author:Peter Kropotkin
“As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.” GovernmentAnarchismAnarchistReconcile Author:Peter Kropotkin
“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.” WorldWellsSaidDreamHappensTodayColorPrejudiceForestsAnarchismAnarchistTrue ColorsHatchet Book:Fugitive writings Source: Fugitive writings
“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.” WorldKindCountryAmericaFreedomWrittenSocietyWorstPoliticianProtectionTyrannyOppressionGuaranteesAnarchistScumAnti-american Author:Peter Kropotkin
“The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.” TwoWholeIndividualSocialCommunityLibertyCenturyMovementCommunismOperationsAnarchist Author:Peter Kropotkin
“The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.” PeopleHumansGovernmentLawPurposeProtectRespectClaimsHuman RightsMissionsExploitationGoverningAnarchist Author:Peter Kropotkin
“Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.” ShouldHumansActionLawPoliticalSocialAnimalSocietyDemandAuthorityAspectOrganizationStriveRefuseAgreementCustomsAnarchyMechanismStrifeHierarchyAnarchistAbolitionKernelCollective Action Author:Peter Kropotkin
“Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.” MenHumansPartyPrisonPunishmentHuman LifeRevolutionaryTortureAnarchistAbolitionCapital Punishment Author:Peter Kropotkin
