4 Quotes & Sayings By Charles Fourier

Charles Fourier (1772–1837) was a French social philosopher, author, and architect who wrote about the future of cities and human society. His most famous idea is the phalanstery, a community in which humans would live in harmony with one another and nature.

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