Charles Fourier Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

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

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

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#5. Attractions are proportional to destinies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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