kropotkin

“ Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor. ”

“ What future lies in store for Communism when one of its most important defenders tramples in this way every honest feeling? ”

“ Everyone knows that absence of education, dislike of regular work, physical incapability of sustained effort, misdirected love of adventure, gambling propensities, absence of energy, an untrained will, and carelessness about the happiness of others are the causes which bring this class of people before the courts. ”

“ You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?' ”

“ Variety is life; uniformity is death. ”

“ In the practice of mutual aid, which we can retrace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions. ”

“ The simple habit of keeping one's word, the desire of not losing confidence, are quite sufficient in an overwhelming majority of cases to enforce the keeping of agreements. ”

“ I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives. ”

“ Well-being for all is not a dream. ”

“ 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? ”