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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 emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself - without the assistance of governments. — Pierre-jospeh Proudhon

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The possessions of the rich are stolen property. — 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

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

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra. — 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

To restore religion, gentlemen, it is necessary to condemn the Church. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw

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

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon