Charles Fourier
Charles Fourier
François Marie Charles Fourierwas a French philosopher and an influential early socialist thinker later associated with "utopian socialism". Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream thinking in modern society. Fourier is, for instance, credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth7 April 1772
CountryFrance
Charles Fourier quotes about
flower men thorns
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
people once-upon-a-time wish
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
sex men independence
To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?
cities limits purpose
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
destiny attraction
Attractions are proportional to destinies.
civilization excellence doubt
The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
civilization disease vices
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
youth social made
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
country civilization judging
One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women
people administration civilized
...any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people...
liberty amount nations
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
equality rights progress
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
dog men he-man
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
children selfishness able
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.