“The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.” ShouldHumansHas BeensLawUsedHeavenTakenMassStonesVictimSlaveryMonstersUsed To BeConfusedSavagesRoyaltyFeudalismThunderbolts Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!” HumansWarEndsStatesLyingChoicesIndividualPrinciplesStruggleGroupsFieldsRevolutionDevelopmentActivityDestructionStartingLocalsCrushAgreementTyrantsInitiativeNew LifePalacesLivelyHuman Activity Author:Peter Kropotkin
“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.” MenHumansHas BeensPastRaceMankindEvolutionAidsTendenciesHuman RaceMutualPresent TimeVicissitudesMutual Aid Book:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Source: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
“Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can re-trace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support- not mutual struggle- has had the leading part.” MenHumansHuman BeingsPracticeSupportStruggleProgressEvolutionPerceptionEthicsAidsOnenessMutualEthicalConceptionMutual AidMutual Support Book:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Source: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
“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
