Robert Owen

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Man is the creature of circumstances.”

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

“Never argue; repeat your assertion.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”