"Russian social theorist Peter Kropotkin... argued that voluntary cooperation has been key to the flourishing of human civilization."
-The New York Times
"Practicing mutual aid is the surest means for giving each other and to all the greatest safety, the best guarantee of existence and progress, bodily, intellectual and moral."
-Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
"Kropotkin did not deny the competitive form of struggle, but argued that the cooperative style had been underemphasized and must balance or even predominate over competition in considering nature as a whole."
-Stephen Jay Gould