Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“It is better to enlighten mens minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.”

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded,...”

“As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy”

“The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself. Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth, no one has a right to st...”

“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 leav...”

“When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical all constraints having disapp...”

“When deeds speak, words are nothing.”

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

“The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself.” Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth, no one has a right to ...”