Julia Kostka

“The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.”
― Charles Fourier

“It is easy to compress the passions by violence. Philosophy suppresses them with a stroke of the pen. Locks and the sword come to the aid of sweet morality, but nature appeals these judgments; she regains her rights in secret. Passion stifled at one point reappears at another like water held back by a dike; it is driven inward like the fluid of an ulcer closed to soon.”
― Charles Fourier

“The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass of men endure the persecution of a few masters and the despotism of prejudices without offering the slightest resistance... their passions are too weak to permit them to derive audacity from despair.”
― Charles Fourier

“The peoples of civilization see their wretchedness increase in direct proportion to the advance of industry.”
― Charles Fourier