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

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

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Fierce
  • Guidance
  • Bravery

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Absolute

• I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Happy
  • Child
  • Lonely

• To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • You
  • Greatest

• I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

  

  David Copperfield
  • Amazing

• I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.

  

  Daniel Nathans

• Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Money
  • May
  • Future

• For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

  

  Maureen Dowd

• I don't have to alter the way I look - I can still wear a short, tight dress, but if what I'm saying is correct, then hopefully you garner respect.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Stills

• 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