"Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities,……" — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people."
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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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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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All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand…
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the…
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them…
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such…
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... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable…
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Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but…
— Susan Sontag
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part…
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