Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Robert Owen (British Social Reformer)

Robert Owen (1771–1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He worked in the cotton industry in Manchester before setting up a large mill at New Lanark in Scotland. In 1824, Owen travelled to America to invest the bulk of his fortune in an experimental 1,000-member colony on the banks of Indiana’s Wabash River, called New Harmony. New Harmony was intended to be a Utopian society.

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There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
Robert Owen
Topics: Heart

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
Topics: Society

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
Robert Owen
Topics: Health

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Robert Owen
Topics: Religion

Never argue; repeat your assertion.
Robert Owen
Topics: One liners, Arguments

Man is the creature of circumstances.
Robert Owen
Topics: Man, Mankind

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Robert Owen
Topics: Law, Lawyers

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