Famously Said Random quote

Peter Kropotkin — Portrait after a picture (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Peter Kropotkin

Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher

1842–1921

4 quotes.

The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening.
Anarchist Morality (1890)
- History
- Thinking
One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
- Good & Evil
- War & Peace
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902), Chapter I
- Nature
Vladimir Ilyich, your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
Letter to Vladimir Lenin (21 December 1920); as quoted in Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel (1990) by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 426
- Ideas

Most quoted

C. S. Lewis1898–1963151 quotes

Mark Twain1835–1910151 quotes

Benjamin Franklin1706–179098 quotes

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–196884 quotes

Albert Einstein1879–195595 quotes

Dave Barryborn 1947100 quotes