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An empire derives no advantage from the caresses of two turtledoves who spend a year cooing to each other in public meetings.

Charles Fourier

Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

Charles Fourier

There was very little that prevented the vandalism of 1793 from suddenly producing a second revolution as marvelous as the first was horrible. The whole human race was approaching its release; the civilized, barbarian, and savage order would have disappeared forever if the Convention, which trampled down all prejudices, had not bowed down before the only one that had to be destroyed, the institution of marriage.

Charles Fourier

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Charles Fourier

It is certain that nature inclines us toward the amorous orgy, just as much as toward the gastronomic orgy, and that while both are blameworthy in the excess, they would become praiseworthy in an order in which they could be equilibrated.

Charles Fourier

Charles Fourier

Charles Fourier

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Born: April 7, 1772

Died: October 10, 1837 (aged 65)

Bio: François Marie Charles Fourier was a French philosopher and an influential early socialist thinker later associated with "utopian socialism".

Known for:

The theory of the four movements (1808)
Le Nouveau monde amoureux
Selections from the works of Fourier
The social destiny of man
The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy

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