As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonThe social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonAXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonTo name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonTo be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon