"Whoever lays his hand on me to govern……" — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy."
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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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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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All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand…
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