Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

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

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Property is theft.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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