Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Rich, Stolen, Prized Possessions

• We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Want, Usury, Limits

• If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Would Be, Answers, Slavery

• Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Communism, Weak

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.132, AK Press

• AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Increase, Property, Axioms

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.90, Cosimo Classics

• 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

  Expression, Development, Synthesis

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.130, AK Press

• Property is impossible.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Impossible, Property

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.5, Cosimo Classics

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