"Communism is inequality, but not as property is.……" — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak."
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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30 Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that…
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
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Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
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To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied…
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The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps…
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Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on…
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All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my…
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By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of…
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The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
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AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as…
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I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order…
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To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.
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American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took…
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did…
— John Adams
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle…
— Bernard Baruch
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
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Communism is like one big phone company.
— Lenny Bruce
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
— Madeleine Albright
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America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
— George W. Bush
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
— Fidel Castro
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