Peter Kropotkin Quotes


No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.


Citations

Kropotkin, Peter. Revolutionary Studies. Office of the Commonweal, 1892, p. 9.

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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.