Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Adventure, Mind, Doe

• Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Revolution, Suffrage, Universal Suffrage

  On Europe after the1848 revolution. Quoted in A J P Taylor From Napoleon to the Second International (1993).

• 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

  Mean, Heart, Silence

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1888). “System of Economical Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery”

• The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Political Revolution, Social, Ifs

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.20, AK Press

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