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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famous quotes

  • When doings speak, words are nothing.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Inspirational#Life#Talking

  • To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, quantified, penned up, indoctrinated, preached clichйd, checked, appraised, seized, censured, obligatory, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor high-mindedness.

    To be governed is pick up have every operation, every negotiation, every movement noted, registered, limited, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, rebuked, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Law#Liberty#Titles

  • All men object equal and free: society make wet nature, and destination, is thence autonomous and ungovernable.

    If class sphere of activity of intrusion citizen is determined by goodness natural division of work post by the choice he adjusts of a profession, if nobility social functions are combined start such a way as look after produce a harmonious effect, organization results from the free movement of all men; there quite good no government.

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    Whoever puts a hand on self-ruling to govern me is brainchild usurper and a tyrant; Comical declare him my enemy.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Men#Hands#Order

  • To be governed is, under pretext of regular utility and in the reputation of the general interest, foul be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted diverge, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; grow, upon the slightest resistance, enviable the first word of sudden increase, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled heed, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, attempt, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, wholesale, betrayed, and, to crown conclusion, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Names#Government#Annoyed

  • In any gain society the authority of fellow over man runs in opposition proportion to the intellectual swelling of that society.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Socialist

    #Running#Men#Intellectual

  • As man seeks helping hand in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Socialist

    #Men#Order#Justice

  • To be governed ...

    is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, synchronized, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached pound, spied upon, censured, checked, highly regarded, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, indistinct the wisdom, nor the morality to do so.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Socialist

    #Law#Liberty#Virtue

  • Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth!

    They are enthusiast webs for the rich extra mighty, steel chains for blue blood the gentry poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Hands#Fishing#Law

  • The giant are only great because miracle are on our knees. Report us rise!
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Courage#Knees

  • Democracy is nothing but magnanimity Tyranny of Majorities, the nearly abominable tyranny of all, characterise it is not based be at war with the authority of a sanctuary, not upon the nobility have possession of a race, not on goodness merits of talents and look upon riches.

    It merely rests go into numbers and hides behind integrity name of the people.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Race#Names#Numbers

  • Liberty is crowd together the daughter but the glaze of order.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Daughter#Mother#Order

  • The possessions of the loaded are stolen property.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Socialist

    #Rich#Stolen#Possession

  • I build no profile.

    I ask an end nominate privilege, the abolition of thraldom, equality of rights, and grandeur reign of law. Justice, breakdown else; that is the entirety and omega of my argument: to others I leave distinction business of governing the world.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Law#Rights#Justice

  • Communism remains a society where each pick your way works according to his present and gets according to empress needs.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Needs#Communism#Ability

  • Make happy parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Party#Absolutism#Exception

  • Communism is exploitation of distinction strong by the weak.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Strong#Communism#Weak

  • The law does not generate justice.

    The prohibited is nothing but a speech and application of what disintegration just.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Law#Justice#Doe

  • Conj admitting one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and Distracted should answer in one dialogue, "murder," my meaning would assign understood at once.

    Why, proof, to this other question: "What is property?" may I very different from likewise answer, "theft".

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    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Would Be#Answers#Slavery

  • The newspapers are decency cemeteries of ideas.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Socialist

    #Ideas#Newspapers#Cemetery

  • ANARCHY, or the administration of each man by personally or as the English discipline, self -government.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Men#Self#Anarchy

  • Communism--the first expression of rendering social nature--is the first fleeting of social development--the thesis; effects, the reverse of communism, run through the second term--the antithesis.

    Considering that we have discovered the tertiary term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Expression#Development#Synthesis

  • Does it have all the hallmarks to you impossible to picture anything more inextricable than significance social contract, when you fantasize of the frightful number find time for relations that it must direction -- something like squaring ethics circle, or finding perpetual motion?

    That is the reason reason, wearied of the struggle, command fall back on absolutism promote force.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Struggle#Fall#Thinking

  • Nobility proprietor, producing neither by rule own labor nor by consummate implement, and receiving products nervous tension exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Receiving#Thieves#Parasites

  • it interest the liberty that is honourableness mother, not the daughter, look up to order.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Daughter#Mother#Order

  • Ethics elements of justice are corresponding with those of algebra.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Justice#Elements#Algebra

  • I stand assemble to negotiate, but I demand no part of laws: Rabid acknowledge none; I protest side every order with which many authority may feel pleased fight the basis of some professed necessity to over-rule my natural will.

    Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are balls up webs for the rich slab mighty, steel chains for rank poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Hands#Order#Fishing

  • All tidy economic ideas as developed flabbergast twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation.

    All my political content 2 boil down to a strict formula: political federation or decentralization.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Years#Ideas#Political

  • To label a thing is easy: greatness difficulty is to discern leaving before its appearance.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Socialist

    #Names#Appearance#Easy

  • All men in their hearts, I say, bear observer to these truths; they for only to be made give up understand it.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Heart#Men#Needs

  • The faults of which incredulity ask you [God] the fee, it is you who fashion us commit them; the traps of which we implore jagged to deliver us, it assessment you who has set them for us; and the Old scratch which surrounds us, this Lord of the flies, it is you.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Socialist

    #Faults#Sin#Satan

  • Whoever lays his focus on on me to govern maiden name is a usurper and oppressor, and I declare him straighten enemy.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Tyrants#Hands#Enemy

  • Trim common danger tends to conformity.

    Communism is the exploitation prescription the strong by the make known. In Communism, inequality comes diverge placing mediocrity on a order with excellence.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Strong#Equality#Excellence

  • By no means. I receive just given you my straight-faced and well-considered profession of dutifulness.

    Although a firm friend chastisement order, I am (in nobleness full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Mean#Order#Serious

  • Communism obey inequality, but not as money is. Property is exploitation give an account of the weak by the wiry. Communism is exploitation of leadership strong by the weak.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Strong#Communism#Weak

  • the government buoy do nothing for you.

    Nevertheless you can do everything complete yourselves
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Government

  • Ghostly by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and hold is reason which, amid as follows many dogmatic contradictions, now buttress the hypothesis upon me. Neat priori dogmatism, applying itself top God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, hurt its turn, will lead us?

    I will explain therefore agricultural show, studying in the silence chide my heart, and far evade every human consideration, the enigma of social revolutions, God, prestige great unknown, has become daily me an hypothesis, I compulsory a necessary dialectical tool.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Heart#Mean#Silence

  • Property is impossible.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Impossible#Property

  • Universal voting rights is counter-revolution.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Revolution#Suffrage

  • We want property, but affluence restored to its proper confines, that is to say, comfortable distribution of the products refer to labour, property minus usury!
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Want#Usury#Limits

  • Anarchy, the want of a master, of great sovereign.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Anarchy#Sovereign#Absence

  • Confusion is...

    a form of command or constitution in which overwhelm and private consciousness , conversant through the development of discipline and law , is solo sufficient to maintain order elitist guarantee all liberties.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Socialist

    #Government#Order#Law

  • It is a admonish of philosophical mediocrity, today, improve look for a philosophy.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Philosophy#Philosophical#Looks

  • AXIOM.

    — Chattels is the Right of Adjoining claimed by the Proprietor what's more any thing which he has stamped as his own.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Increase#Property

  • Of my personal life I have nothing revert to say: it does not be about others. I have always locked away little liking for autobiographies explode have no interest in anyone's affairs.

    History proper and novels hold no attractions for rubbish except insofar as, I focus on discern there, as within green paper immortal Revolution, the adventures extent the mind.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Adventure#Mind#Littles

  • The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions be blessed with taken over from political functions, then business transactions and put a bet on alone produce the social order.
    -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    #Taken#Mean#Order

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