Occupation: Author Birth: January 15, 1809 Death: January 19, 1865
To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance..
Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak..
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!.
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen i….
The possessions of the rich are stolen property..
The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone….
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….
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it..
I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!.
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….
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra..
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race..
The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just..
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign..
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….
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upo….
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….
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..
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!.
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached ….