Top 28 Charles Fourier Quotes

#1. Even if my country remains in war with yours ... remember ... i am not your enemy.

A.J. Cronin

#2. 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

#3. You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.

S.E. Hinton

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

Charles Fourier

#5. Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.
You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know what
your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will.

Pierce Brown

#6. press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment

Ben Wilson

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

Charles Fourier

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

Charles Fourier

#9. But there is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of saying that his philosophy does not matter, and this is done universally in the twentieth century, in the decadence of the great revolutionary period. General

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Attractions are proportional to destinies.

Charles Fourier

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

Charles Fourier

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

Charles Fourier

#13. What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious.

Walker Percy

#14. This is about sending a very strong message that Scotland does want to stay in the European Union and we're an open country, a good place to live, work, study and to do business and it's really important as we take forward what will be challenging work ahead of us, that we send those messages.

Nicola Sturgeon

#15. Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Jane Austen

#17. I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Justin Timberlake

#18. You're so completely going to be in Slytherin."
"I'm so completely going to be in Ravenclaw, thank you very much. I only want power so I can get books.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#19. 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

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

Charles Fourier

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

Charles Fourier

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

Charles Fourier

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

Charles Fourier

#24. My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.

Mel Healy

#25. You made one mistake and you shouldn't beat yourself up for it for the rest of your life.

Brenna Aubrey

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

Charles Fourier

#27. A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.

Sean Lock

#28. I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation.

Zoe Whittall

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