Quote#Wisdom
That we are Utopians is well known. So Utopian are we that we go the…
Quote byPeter Kropotkin · 1842–1921
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 5 : Food, p. 98.
English (original)
That we are Utopians is well known. So Utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the Revolution can and ought to assure shelter, food, and clothes to all — an idea extremely displeasing to middle-class citizens, whatever their party color, for they are quite alive to the fact that it is not easy to keep the upper hand of a people whose hunger is satisfied.
— Peter Kropotkin
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