Charles Fourier Quotes

• The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

  Charles Fourier

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

  Theory of Four Movements vol. 2, ch. 4 (1808)

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• One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

  Charles Fourier

  Country, Civilization, Judging

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• Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

  Charles Fourier

  Dog, Men, He Man

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• Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

  Charles Fourier

  People, Administration, Civilized

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• Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Vices, Viruses

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• To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?

  Charles Fourier

  Sex, Men, Independence

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• It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

  Charles Fourier

  Liberty, Amount, Nations

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• Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

  Charles Fourier

  Flower, Men, Thorns

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• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Doubt, Excellence

  "The Social Destiny of Man: Or, Theory of the Four Movements".

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• Attractions are proportional to destinies.

  Charles Fourier

  Destiny, Attraction

  Charles Fourier (1851). “The passions of the human soul and their influence on society and civilization...”, p.12

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• ...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

  Charles Fourier

  Soldier, Firsts, Etc

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• The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

  Charles Fourier

  Children, Selfishness, Able

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• Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

  Charles Fourier

  Youth, Social, Made

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• Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

  Charles Fourier

  Cities, Purpose, Limits

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• Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

  Charles Fourier

  People, Once Upon A Time, Wish

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