"To be governed is to be watched, inspected,……" — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected."
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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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Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
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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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All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand…
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