Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhonwas a French politician and the founder of mutualist philosophy. He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist and is widely regarded as one of the ideology's most influential theorists. Proudhon is even considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He became a member of the French Parliament after the revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth15 January 1809
CountryFrance
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon quotes about
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
Liberty is not the daughter but the mother of order.
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.
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.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.
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.
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.