Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon More Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon More Quotes From Pierre-Joseph Proudhon To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon appearance names easy AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon axioms property increase It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon philosophical philosophy looks it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon daughter mother order All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon heart men needs Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon viewpoints different two Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon development synthesis expression Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, I mean a necessary dialectical tool. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon silence heart mean 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 the term) an anarchist. Listen to me. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon serious order mean As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon politics political feet Property is theft. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon theft property
