85 Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

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.

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.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

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.