“If I were talking to men who had love of liberty and respect for themselves, and I wanted to incite them to revolt, I should confine myself in my speech to reciting the powers of a prefect [Parisian chief of police].”
–Pierre Joseph Proudhon, The General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century
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Quoted in The Heretic’s Handbook of Quotations
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