But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and … - Peter Kropotkin

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The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

Peter Kropotkin

But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?

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Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

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The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

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Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

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Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.

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