List of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

Communism--the First Expression Of The Social Nature--is The First Term Of Social Development--the Thesis; Property, The Reverse Of Communism, Is The Second Term--the Antithesis. When We Have Discovered The Third Term, The Synthesis, We Shall Have The Required Solution.

Tormented By Conflicting Feelings, I Appealed To Reason ; And It Is Reason Which, Amid So Many Dogmatic Contradictions, Now Forces The Hypothesis Upon Me. A Priori Dogmatism, Applying Itself To God, Has Proved Fruitless: Who Knows Whither The Hypothesis, In Its Turn, Will Lead Us? I Will Explain Therefore How, Studying In The Silence Of My Heart, And Far From Every Human Consideration, The Mystery Of Social Revolutions, God, The Great Unknown, Has Become For Me An Hypothesis, I Mean A Necessary Dialectical Tool.

Property Is Impossible.

By No Means. I Have Just Given You My Serious And Well-considered Profession Of Faith. Although A Firm Friend Of Order, I Am (in The Full Force Of The Term) An Anarchist. Listen To Me.

All My Economic Ideas As Developed Over Twenty-five Years Can Be Summed Up In The Words: Agricultural-industrial Federation. All My Political Ideas Boil Down To A Similar Formula: Political Federation Or Decentralization.

As Soon As I Set Foot In The Parliamentary Sinai, I Ceased To Be In Touch With The Masses.

All Men In Their Hearts, I Say, Bear Witness To These Truths; They Need Only To Be Made To Understand It.

The 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.

Universal Suffrage Is Counter-revolution.

A Common Danger Tends To Concord. Communism Is The Exploitation Of The Strong By The Weak. In Communism, Inequality Comes From Placing Mediocrity On A Level With Excellence.

Anarchy, Or The Government Of Each Man By Himself Or As The English Say, Self -government.

The Elements Of Justice Are Identical With Those Of Algebra.