Kropotkin Quotes – Kropotkin was an anarchist, revolutionary and socialist of Russia. He was also an economist, zoologist, and political scientist. Due to his skills, he was also known as a researcher, a writer, and an essayist.
He completed his schooling in military school. In Siberia, Kropotkin served as an officer. He was active, and because of his activism, he was imprisoned. When he managed to escape, he spent his next 41 years in Switzerland, England, and France.
Due to his knowledge of geography and anarchism, he used to give lectures to different students. Kropotkin’s saying and quotes have inspired many people. Kropotkin believed that if you have made any mistakes in life, then do not worry.
Mistakes teach us a lot of things in life. Without making any mistakes, you cannot get any success in life. For you, we have some famous Kropotkin Quotes. These quotes might motivate you so that you do not worry if you make any mistakes in life.
51 Famous Kropotkin Quotes On Success
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2.“Have not prisons – which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe – always been universities of crime?”– Kropotkin
3.“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.”– Kropotkin
4.“The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.”– Kropotkin
5.“Where there is authority, there is no freedom.”– Kropotkin
6.“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!”– Kropotkin
7.“In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.”– Kropotkin
8.“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”– Kropotkin
9.“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.”– Kropotkin
10.“I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.”– Kropotkin
11.“There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming.”– Kropotkin
12.“Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.”– Kropotkin
13.“Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization”– Kropotkin
14.“But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?”– Kropotkin
15.“In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.”– Kropotkin
16.“It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism — the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.”– Kropotkin
17.“When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.”– Kropotkin
18.“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.”– Kropotkin
19.“You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, ‘What will become of my poor subjects without me?’”– Kropotkin
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21.“If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.”– Kropotkin
22.“Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.”– Kropotkin
23.“Educated men – “civilized,” as Fourier used to say with disdain – tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.”– Kropotkin
24.“The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.”– Kropotkin
25.“The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection of property, protection of persons, protection of government. And by analyzing each of these three categories, we arrive at the same logical and necessary conclusion: the uselessness and hurtfulness of law.”– Kropotkin
26.“While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.”– Kropotkin
27.“ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.”– Kropotkin
28.“As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.”– Kropotkin
29“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.”– Kropotkin
30.“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.”– Kropotkin
31.“When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!”– Kropotkin
32.“All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In place of the cowardly phrase, Obey the law, our cry, is Revolt against all laws!”– Kropotkin
33.“The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.”– Kropotkin
34.“It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.”– Kropotkin
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36.“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”– Kropotkin
37.“When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.”– Kropotkin
38.“He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. ‘One must have some question,’ he wrote, ‘addressed to the book one is going to read.”– Kropotkin
39.“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. ‘Read poetry,’ he wrote: ‘poetry makes men better.’ How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”– Kropotkin
40.“My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of feeling ‘a dull pain in the brain’–a physical pain, as he used to say–when he was with people who cared only for small talk.”– Kropotkin
41.“…do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?”– Kropotkin
42.“Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?”– Kropotkin
43.“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”– Kropotkin
44.“War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years’ supply of causes of war is always on hand.”– Kropotkin
45.“Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.”– Kropotkin
46.“Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle… mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.”– Kropotkin
47.“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.”– Kropotkin
48.“You know how I always believe in the future… Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.”– Kropotkin
49.“Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.”– Kropotkin
50.“All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone’s part in the production of the world’s wealth… All is for all!”– Kropotkin
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Everyone in this world has dreams in life. Everyone wants to fulfill their dreams. If you do struggle in life, then you can get your dreams. But if you do not struggle, then nothing will work.
If you struggle to achieve the things which you love, then you will never hate doing struggle. Always try to do that work in life which you like the most. By doing so, you will get joy and pleasure.
“The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?”– Kropotkin
Joy and pleasure will help you enjoy life to its fullest. Once you start struggling in life, then nothing can stop you from getting success.
By reading the Kropotkin Quotes, you will know the real meaning of doing struggle in life. You might love to do hard work in life. If you like these Kropotkin Quotes then do share them with other people as well.
