Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule…"

"System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery"

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

"Sociability is the attraction felt by sentient beings for each other; justice is the same attraction, accompanied by reflection and knowledge."

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

"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."

"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who …"

"Justice is the product of nature and labour"