Quotes from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

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.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

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.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

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

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.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

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

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

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.

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

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

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.