"Property is theft." — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"Property is theft."
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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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More Property Quotes
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine…
— Honore de Balzac
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I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your…
— Michael Badnarik
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
— John Adams
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to…
— Samuel Adams
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In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real…
— James Belushi
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