Archive for category: Jacques Élisée Reclus

Jacques Élisée Reclus (1830–1905) was a prominent French geographer, writer, and anarchist. He was renowned for his extensive geographical works and utopian-anarchist ideas, which he expressed in numerous writings. Reclus’ thoughts significantly influenced the 19th-century anarchist movement.

Quote by Jacques Élisée Reclus about hatred breeding hatred and hope in anarchist thinking

Jacques Élisée Reclus Quotes: Hatred, Hope, and Anarchist Thought

1. April 2023

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"History permits the well-founded observation that the policy of hatred always breeds hatred and fatally complicates the general situation, if not leads to final ruin. How many nations perished in this way. Oppressors as well as oppressed! Should we also be doomed? I hope not! And I owe this hope also to the anarchist thinking, which penetrates day by day more and more into the light and renews the human initiative." Jacques Élisée Reclus

Quote about animals as friends by Jacques Élisée Reclus

The Horse and the Cow as Friends – Jacques Élisée Reclus

1. May 2019

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"The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat." Jacques Élisée Reclus