Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"The nineteenth century is in my eyes a creative age in which new principles are produced but in which nothing written will endure."

"The end of the old civilization has come; the face of the earth will be renewed under a new son. Let the present generation perish, let the old prevaricators die in the desert! The holy earth will not…"

"The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself.” Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth, no one has a right to ste…"

"All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism."

"As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy."

"Justice is not the work of the law: on the contrary, the law is only the declaration and application of what is just in all circumstances where men have relations with one another."

"Justice is the product of nature and labour"

"Friendship is precious in the hearts of the children of men. Generosity, gratitude , and friendship are three three distinct shades of a single sentiment which I will call "equity" or "social proporti…"