Peter Kropotkin Quotes

The anarchist is not at liberty to break the law because he reasons that all government is wrong.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for a change. After a while, they started complaining, although more secure, they also become more dependent and rule-bound.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

"One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.