Robert Owen Quotes

• 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, Comfort

  "Foundation Axioms" of the Society for Promoting National Regeneration, 1833.

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• 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

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• 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

  Generations, Rising, Firsts

  "The Social System - Constitution, Laws, and Regulations of a Community". Book by Robert Owen, 1826.

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• 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

  Mujeres, Igualdad, Derechos

  "The Book of the New Moral World, Vol. 6". Book by Robert Owen, 1836-1844.

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• Sólo hay un modo por el cual el hombre puede poseer a perpetuidad toda la felicidad que su naturaleza es capaz de disfrutar, que es por la unión y cooperación de todos en beneficio de cada uno.

  Robert Owen

  Felicidad, Felices, Hombres

  "The Social System - Constitution, Laws, and Regulations of a Community". Book by Robert Owen, 1826.

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• 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

  Happiness, Country, Children

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• 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

  Health, Ignorance, Adversity

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.349

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• 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, Men, Intelligent

  "A Development of the Principles & Plans on which to establish self-supporting Home Colonies". Book by Robert Owen, 1841.

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• Para conservar una buena salud permanente, hay que tener en cuenta el estado de ánimo.

  Robert Owen

  Taken, Health, Mind

  Robert Owen (1845). “The Book of the New Moral World: Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and of Society”, p.82

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• 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 — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.

  Robert Owen

  Country, Religioso, Real

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

  Robert Owen

  Hombres, Perfectos, Mente

  Robert Owen (1837). “Essays on the Formation of the Human Character”, p.29

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• Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

  Robert Owen

  Important, Quality, Originality

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• The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:
  1st - When they are neglected in infancy
  
  2nd - 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

  "Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Classes". Book by Robert Owen, 1818.

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• 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

  Deathbed statement in November 1858. "A History of British Socialism". Book by Max Beer, Volume 2, 2001.

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• Man is the creature of circumstances.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Circumstances, Creatures

  Robert Owen, William Legg (1839). “Report of the Discussion: Between Robert Owen, Esq., and the Rev. Wm. Legg, B.A., which Took Place in the Town Hall, Reading, March 5 & 6, 1839, on Mr. Owen's New Views of Society”, p.34

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• Al descubrir que ninguna religión se basaba en hechos, sino que todas ellas se oponían a los hechos y, por lo tanto, no podían ser verdaderas, empecé a reflexionar sobre cuál debía ser la condición de la humanidad, educada desde la infancia para creer en estos errores y hacer de ellos la norma de su conducta.

  Robert Owen

  Believe, Errors, Religion

  "Debate on the Evidences of Christianity".

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• Never argue, repeat your assertion.

  Robert Owen

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• 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

  Religioso, Medio, Pensamiento

  Robert Owen (1854). “Part 5. of the New Existence of Man Upon the Earth in Winch is Continued the Outline of Mr. Owen's Life...[etc]”, p.11

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• My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.

  Robert Owen

  Children, Men, Errors

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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

  Robert Owen

  Law, Ears, States

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• 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

  "The Book of the New Moral World, Vol. 3". Book by Robert Owen, 1836-1844.

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• Adoramos a Dios y al Doctor por igual, pero sólo cuando estamos en peligro, no antes. Cuando el peligro ha pasado, ambos son recompensados por igual.

  Robert Owen

  God, Doctors, Medical

  Epigram Cf. 256:27

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• It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  Robert Owen (1837). “First American from the third London edition”, p.76

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• There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

  Robert Owen

  Heart, Men, Cottages

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• Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

  Robert Owen

  Sex, Affection, Chastity

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