James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
Proudhon
Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
La condition par excellence de la vie, de la santé et de la force chez l’être organisé, est l’action. C’est par l’action qu’il developpe ses facultés, qu’il en augmente l’énergie, et qu’il atteint la plénitude de sa destinée—The chief condition on which depends the life, health, and vigour of an organised being is action. It is by action that it develops its faculties, that it increases its energy, and that it attains to the fulfilment of its destiny.
La propriété c’est le vol—Property, that is theft.
“My ideal of a society is one in which I would be guillotined as a Conservative.”To Prince Napoleon.