Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes on Freedom
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French political philosopher and the first thinker to call himself an anarchist. This page collects quotes attributed to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
“Property is theft.”
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Attributed to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
“What is government? It is the perpetual state of war between the strong and the weak.”
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Attributed to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
“Anarchy is order; government is civil war.”
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Attributed to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
“Liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order.”
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Attributed to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled.”