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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

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Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

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Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

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Property is impossible.

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All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

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it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

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