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

— Charles Fourier The Theory of the Four Movements and of the General Destinies (1808)

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

The Theory of the Four Movements (1808)

Such results are well worth the sacrifice of a few prejudices.

The Theory of Social Organization (1876)

There is no idea more novel, more surprising, than that of associating three hundred families of different degrees of fortune, knowledge and capacity.

The Theory of Social Organization (1876)

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

The familial union presents as well a mixture of inconvenient ages and characters that inhibit conversation. Morality engenders a frigid atmosphere, as in all places where it reigns.

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