Quotes by Peter Kropotkin
“Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.”— 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 it has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.”— Peter Kropotkin
“Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build that world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.”— Peter Kropotkin
“All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth.”— Peter Kropotkin
“Don't compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!”— Peter Kropotkin
“In the animal world we have seen that the vast majority of species live in societies, and that they find in association the best arms for the struggle for life.”— Peter Kropotkin
“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life... or the destruction of States, and new life starting again.”— Peter Kropotkin
“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”— Peter Kropotkin
“It is in the name of equality that we are determined to have no more prostituted, exploited, deceived and governed men and women.”— Peter Kropotkin
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society... with regulations that are useful only to the ruling minority.”— Peter Kropotkin
“Anarchism... is the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government.”— Peter Kropotkin
“The whole of history is nothing but a continual struggle between the rulers and the ruled.”— Peter Kropotkin