Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Charles FourierDespots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
Charles FourierCivilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
Charles FourierOne could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women
Charles FourierThe 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.
Charles Fourier