Peter Kropotkin Quotes


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!"


Citations

Kropotkin, Peter. "Law and Authority." Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets, edited by Roger N. Baldwin, Vanguard Press, 1927, p. 218.

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Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin
  • Born: December 9, 1842
  • Died: February 8, 1921
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Revolutionary

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, economist, sociologist, historian, zoologist, political scientist, human geographer and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism. He was also an activist, essayist, researcher and writer.