Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws:… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise! — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis.… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
![“The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.” quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4df/pierre-joseph-proudhon-11634_asks_the-faults-of-which-we-ask-you-god-the-r_28053.jpg)
