Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Men Quotations

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.