All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonDemocracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonTo name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon