Robert Owen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity â€” not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour â€” but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.
-- Robert Owen

#Country #Religious #Real
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour
-- Robert Owen

#Country #Children #Party
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men...They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.
-- Robert Owen

#Men #Rights #Liberty
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
-- Robert Owen

#Believe #Errors #Religion
There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, â€” that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.
-- Robert Owen

#Men #Unions #Benefits
God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.
-- Robert Owen

#God #Doctors #Medical
To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
-- Robert Owen

#Taken #Health #Mind
Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?
-- Robert Owen

#Quality #Important #Originality
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:1st - When they are neglected in infancy2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour
-- Robert Owen

#Ignorance #Class #Use
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, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.
-- Robert Owen

#Character #Intelligent #Men
My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.
-- Robert Owen

#Understanding #Important #Useless
The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.
-- Robert Owen

#Medicine #Mind #Body
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.
-- Robert Owen

#Wall #Garden #Museums
Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.
-- Robert Owen

#Sex #Affection #Chastity
There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
-- Robert Owen

#Heart #Men #Palaces
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
-- Robert Owen

#Law #Ears #Found
Never argue, repeat your assertion.
-- Robert Owen

#Discipline #Arguing #Self Discipline
It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbours respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.
-- Robert Owen

#Religious #Mean #Thinking
Man is the creature of circumstances.
-- Robert Owen

#Men #Circumstances #Creatures
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.
-- Robert Owen

#Sleep #Eight #Shelter
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
-- Robert Owen

#Humanity #Wages #Individual
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.
-- Robert Owen

#Rising #Firsts #Generations
Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.
-- Robert Owen

#Ignorance #Society #May
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.
-- Robert Owen

#Men #Air #Atmosphere

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