Robert Owen Quotes

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• Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
• Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained…
• Never argue, repeat your assertion.
• Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment…
• It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles…
• Man is the creature of circumstances.
• Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter,…
• The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
• To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.
• There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, — that is…
• I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my…
• Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men...They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.
• There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
• Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.
• God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and…
• To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
• Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?
• Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and…
• Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from…
• All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

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