85 Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

...if there be some points which correspondence can never settle, but which can be made clear by conversation in two minutes, at other times just the opposite is the case: an objection clearly stated in writing, a doubt well expressed, which elicits a direct and positive reply, helps things along more than ten hours of oral intercourse!

la propriété, c'est le vol!

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

I ask to live a worker; otherwise I will die a warrior.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

If everyone is my brother, I have no brothers.

It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!

What, I ask, has the fixed and solid nature of the earth to do with the right of appropriation?(...)But the creator of the land does not sell it: he gives it; and, in giving it, he is no respecter of persons. Why, then, are some of his children regarded as legitimate, while others are treated as bastards? If the equality of shares was an original right, why is the inequality of conditions a posthumous right?