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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Race, Justice, Development

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• 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

  Ideas, Foundation, Principles

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2007). “The Philosophy of Misery”, p.362, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Strong, Communism, Weak

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.132, AK Press

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

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  Needs, Communism, Ability

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• 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

  Strong, Equality, Excellence

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Looks

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• 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.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Taken, Mean, Order

  "The Principle of Federation". Book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863.

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Party, Absolutism, Exception

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• Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Revolution, Suffrage, Universal Suffrage

  On Europe after the1848 revolution. Quoted in A J P Taylor From Napoleon to the Second International (1993).

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Anarchy, Sovereign, Absence

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.134, AK Press

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

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  Two, Different, Viewpoints

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.373, AK Press

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• The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.

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  Justice, Elements, Algebra

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.89, Cosimo Classics

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• All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Years, Ideas, Political

  "The principle of federation". Book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863.

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Men, Self, Anarchy

  "The Principle of Federation". Book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863.

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• Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Adventure, Mind, Doe

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Names, Appearance, Easy

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.11, Cosimo Classics

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

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  Law, Justice, Doe

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• Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.

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  Struggle, Fall, Thinking

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2007). “General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Devil, Faults, Sin

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Increase, Property, Axioms

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.90, Cosimo Classics

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

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Feet, Political, Politics

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.19, AK Press

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

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  Heart, Men, Needs

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.11, Cosimo Classics

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• By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

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  Mean, Order, Serious

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.133, AK Press

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• 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

  Expression, Development, Synthesis

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.130, AK Press

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• Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, I mean a necessary dialectical tool.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Mean, Heart, Silence

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1888). “System of Economical Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery”

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