Robert Owen

“The character of man is, without a single exception, always formed for him.”

“All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.”

“Of all the plagues which infest society, corporal punishment is the most extensive and injurious.”

“The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.”

“Man is the creature of circumstances.”

“Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law, cannot be found in a rational state of society.”

“Eight hours' daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements ought to be productive of more than sufficient for all his wants.”

“To create a new society for the rising generation, which shall be founded on the principles of truth, justice, and kindness.”

“There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, — that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.”

“Woman, the producer of the human race, has been made the slave of man.”

“Never argue; repeat your assertion.”

“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 infancy to believe in error.”

“To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.”

“It is therefore the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character.”

“As there are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.”