The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra. 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 appearancenameseasy AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon axiomspropertyincrease It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon philosophicalphilosophylooks it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon daughtermotherorder All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon heartmenneeds Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon viewpointsdifferenttwo 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 developmentsynthesisexpression 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 silenceheartmean 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 seriousordermean As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon politicspoliticalfeet Property is theft. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon theftproperty
