Occupation: Author Birth: January 15, 1809 Death: January 19, 1865
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the….
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….
Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints..
If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other….
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the w….
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….
To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance..
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution..
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upo….
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign..
To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploite….
I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on ….
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs..
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in any….
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 wh….
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!.
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 ….
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached ….
The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just..