Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

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.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Man

• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Learning
  • Literature

• You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Know
  • Commitment
  • Legacy

• I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Guy
  • Listening
  • Skateboarder

• If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Fierce
  • Guidance
  • Bravery

• I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Religious
  • Causes
  • Intolerance

• Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Kind

• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Remember
  • American
  • Air

• There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Best
  • Gay
  • Better

• Derogatory against women - it seems that Trump is not too keen about having women around him, maybe except for his wife and daughter.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Women
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Country
  • House

• A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Care

• What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Money
  • Simple
  • Start

• I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.

  

  Zendaya
  • Born
  • Nephew
  • Niece

• The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Art

• If you try to kill yourself for a role on the TV show, you'll succeed. It's too long, it's too much. So, it's tough, but the challenge is a good thing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Challenge

• Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

  

  David Letterman
  • Good

• Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Time
  • Writing
  • She

• A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Skills
  • Serial Killer

• I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.

  

  Dr. Dre

• 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.

  

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon