The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

- Peter Kropotkin

The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of…

- Peter Kropotkin

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

- Peter Kropotkin

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of th…

- Peter Kropotkin

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

- Peter Kropotkin

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success u…

- Peter Kropotkin

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

- Peter Kropotkin

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

- Peter Kropotkin

The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmon…

- Peter Kropotkin