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 Proudhonthe government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonCommunism 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 ProudhonAs soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon