They surely cannot guarantee happiness, because happiness depends as much, or even more, upon the individual himself as upon his surroundings.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “They surely cannot guarantee happiness, because happiness depends as much, or even more, upon the individual himself as…”
Editor's note · Context
Here, Kropotkin acknowledges that individual happiness is influenced by personal agency as well as external conditions.
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And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.
They are entirely in our institutions, in our inheritances and survivals from the past--in the “Ghosts” which oppress us.
The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
Altogether, the worker is much more at the mercy of the dealer or the employer, and the employer is at the mercy of the wholesale dealer.

