Quotes by
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
1809-1865 , French anarchist
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Quotations
| • | Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. 15 |
| • | To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. 8 |
| • | Liberty, not the daughter but the mother of Order. 8 |
| • | 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. 7 |
| • | Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. 6 |
| • | Property is theft! 5 |
| • | In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. 4 |
| • | All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. 3 |
| • | The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas. 3 |
