Robert Owen
Robert Owen
Robert Owenwas a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He worked in the cotton industry in Manchester before setting up a large mill at New Lanark in Scotland. In 1824, Owen travelled to America to invest the bulk of his fortune in an experimental 1,000-member colony on the banks of Indiana's Wabash River, called New Harmony. New Harmony was intended to be a Utopian society...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 May 1771
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The hard part was after 22 years a lot of these people are like family, so it was more or less like a divorce, ... You go through the whole 12 steps of recovery. You are angry for a while, you blame people for a while and then you get over that and you are sad for a while, but now it is time to go on.
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For us, the direct benefit we think will be to introduce a wider range of students to all of the opportunities that are in aviation.
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We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.
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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 to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour
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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 religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.
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The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
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To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.
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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 happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.
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To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
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The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:1st - When they are neglected in infancy2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour
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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
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Never argue, repeat your assertion.
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There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
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My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.