Communism – the first expression of the social nature – is the first term of social development – the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term – the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

— 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

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I do not wish to be either governor or governed!

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

— 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

AXIOM. – Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Communism – the first expression of the social nature – is the first term of social development – the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term – the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Property is impossible.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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