Robert Owen on circumstance
Robert Owen14 quotes“Man is the creature of circumstances.”
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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 OwenRobert Owen There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
Robert OwenRobert Owen 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 OwenRobert Owen 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 OwenRobert Owen The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
Robert OwenRobert Owen Never argue, repeat your assertion.
Robert OwenRobert Owen To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
Robert OwenRobert Owen 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 OwenRobert Owen Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.
Robert OwenRobert Owen Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Robert OwenRobert Owen Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual’s originality that is most important?
Robert OwenRobert Owen There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, – that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.
Robert OwenRobert Owen 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.
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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
Uta HagenUta Hagen The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
Timothy KellerTimothy Keller An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.
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