Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Law, Liberty, Titles

• To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Law, Liberty, Libertarian

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Running, Men, Intellectual

• Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Daughter, Mother, Order

  "Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology".

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Hands, Tyrants, Enemy

• Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Government, Order, Law

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's letter of 1864, as quoted in "Selected writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon" edited by Stewart Edwards (p. 92), 1969.

• it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Daughter, Mother, Order

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.280, AK Press

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