“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
“every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.” HumansArtPhilosophySpecialRevolutionActivityParisIntensityHuman ActivityPhilosophy Love Book:The Birds Fall Down Source: The Birds Fall Down
“Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.” IfsMenMayCausesChangeWiseRevolutionFitActivityNormalGradesDiscomfortJerk Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.” MenWarStruggleFieldsRevolutionActivityGreat MenGreat War Author:Arthur Desmond
“The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic.” StatesSocialGrowsRevolutionActivityContraryCirclesTendenciesInherentStaticFluent Book:My Disillusionment in Russia Source: My Disillusionment in Russia
“No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.” CertainGrowingRevolutionActivityMassImportanceRaisedWaveExpectedReactionsOctoberDisillusionmentInevitabilityFactionsVanguardOctober Revolution Author:Leon Trotsky