Peter Kropotkin Quotes on Politics
Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian geographer, naturalist, and anarchist philosopher and one of the founders of anarcho-communism. This page collects quotes attributed to Peter Kropotkin on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Mutual aid is a factor of evolution.”
A soon as we study animals — not in laboratories and museums only, but in the forest and prairie, in the steppe and in the mountains — we at once perceive that though there is an immense amount of warfare and extermination going on amidst various species, and especially amidst various classes of animals, there is, at the same time, as much, or perhaps even more, of mutual support, mutual aid , and -
Attributed to Peter Kropotkin:
“Cooperation, not competition, is the law of life.”
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Attributed to Peter Kropotkin:
“Anarchy is the rejection of all rule, of all authority not consented to.”
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“Bread for all is the foundation of every human society.”
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Attributed to Peter Kropotkin:
“The state is the organized destruction of mutual aid.”