the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonThe 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 ProudhonLaws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonWhoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonThe social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
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 Proudhon