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…”
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Here, Kropotkin acknowledges that individual happiness is influenced by personal agency as well as external conditions.
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