Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes
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As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
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Property is theft.
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
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The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
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I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
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AXIOM. - Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
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All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
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The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
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The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
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A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
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The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!