Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Property is theft.

Anarchy is order, government is civil war.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

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.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

Communism is not always equality but it is more so than property is. In communism inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.