Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Superficiality, parrot-like repetition, slavishness and inertia of mind are the results of our method of education.”

Far more important, however, than this outbreak of discontent, was the spirit which prevailed amongst the poorer portion of the working population in the outskirts of London.

However, I found that the comprehension of ‘struggle for life’ in the sense of a war-cry of ‘Woe to the weak,’ raised to the height of a commandment of nature revealed by science, was so deeply inrooted in this country that it had become…

Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.

Already during my stay at Clairvaux I saw the necessity of completely revising the formula itself of ‘struggle for existence’ in the animal world, and its applications to human affairs.