“For a Russian to see an inexorably increasing population inevitably straining potential supplies of food and space required quite a leap of imagination.”
Category: Peter Kropotkin
“Production is, for us, the mere servant of consumption; it must mold itself on the wants of the consumer, not dictate to him conditions.”
“British industry is the work of the British nation — nay, of Europe and India taken together — not of separate individuals.”
“Would they not be obliged then to say clearly and distinctly that the present war is a war between two groups of predators equally inimical to freedom?”
“Every war is evil — whether it ends in victory or defeat. Evil on the one hand for the combatants and on the other for the neutrals. I do not believe in ‘beneficent’ wars.”
“It seems to me that our attitude is not to say who shall dominate in certain areas, but to put an end to domination in every area.”
“They proclaimed their principles during the terrible year spent on the threshold of death; they proclaimed them on the scaffold, and they hailed the day on which they died for those principles as the happiest of their lives.”
“So in opposing war, he is no more a non-resistant than the opportunist revolutionist.”
“We ask our friends: if it were a matter of liberating Trieste, would they go if the only way of doing so would be enlisting under the King’s colors or under Imbriani’s?”
“…the next revolution, if it is guided by Socialist principle, must necessarily drive them to Communism, and Communism drive them to Anarchy.”
