Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotations

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

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.

Property is impossible.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

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.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness , formed through the development of science and law , is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties.