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I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Property is impossible.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
To restore religion, gentlemen, it is necessary to condemn the Church.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself - without the assistance of governments.
— Pierre-jospeh Proudhon
Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
AXIOM. - Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Anarchy is order, government is civil war.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Property is theft!
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon