Occupation: Author Birth: January 15, 1809 Death: January 19, 1865
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 th….
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 wh….
Property is impossible..
The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a th….
The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution..
Democracy 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 ….
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy..
AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own..
When deeds speak, words are nothing..
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy..
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased ….
Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints..
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism..
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate w….
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 ….
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the….
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order..
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society..
Laws: 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 ….
Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order..