Peter Kropotkin Quotes

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

I was born in revolution.

We are here to make another world.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Only force would produce social change.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.