Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes
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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, 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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To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
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In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
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I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
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the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves
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Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.
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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
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It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.
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The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.
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The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
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ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
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As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.
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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 order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.
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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 political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
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The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
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The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.
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Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.
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The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.
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The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.
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The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.
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Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.
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AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
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Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
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To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.
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If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?
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Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
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Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.
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All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.
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