Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

- Charles Fourier

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

- Charles Fourier

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

- Charles Fourier

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

- Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those…

- Charles Fourier

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

- Charles Fourier

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

- Charles Fourier

To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove wi…

- Charles Fourier

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

- Charles Fourier