Peter Kropotkin Quotes

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Only force would produce social change.

Power Concedes Nothing

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.