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 ProudhonThe law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonIf one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon