"To be governed is, under pretext of public……" — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored."
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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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