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