Charles Fourier Quotes
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women
Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
...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.
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
