Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“The best form of government is a mutualist association.”

“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, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.”

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

“Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order.”

“The abolition of the exploitation of man by man and the abolition of the government of man by man are two expressions of the same thing.”

“The government of man by man is servitude.”

“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.”

“Society seeks order in anarchy.”

“The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.”

“The idea of God is the eternal damnation of humanity.”

“Property is theft!”

“Anarchy is Order Without Power.”

“Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.”

“Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak.”

“Justice is the central star which governs societies.”

“The proprietor, the robber, the hero, the sovereign—for all these titles are synonymous—imposes his will as law, and suffers neither contradiction nor control.”