Henri de Saint-Simon Quotes
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, was a French political philosopher, theorist of industrial society, and one of the founders of socialist thought. Born to one of the oldest families of the French nobility, he served as a young officer in the American Revolution and survived a brief imprisonment during the Reign of Terror. The quotes below are attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon, organized by topic.
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Henri de Saint-Simon on God
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Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:
“The new Christianity is the religion of progress.”
Henri de Saint-Simon on Happiness
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“To colonize the world with the European race, which is superior to every other race: to make the world accessible and habitable like Europe—such is the sort of enterprise by which the European Parliament should continually keep Europe active and happy”
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Henri de Saint-Simon on Justice
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“No man has a right to free himself from the law of labour”
as quoted from The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 17, (1905 edition) p. 471, by Gilman, Daniel Coit; Colby, Frank Moore; Peck, Harry Thurston. Editor Dodd, Mead.
Henri de Saint-Simon on Knowledge
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“La politique est … la science de la production.”
Politics is the science of production . De L'Industrie (1816), in Saint-Simon: sa víe et ses travaux (1857), by M. G. Hubbard, pp. 156–157 -
“Syst. Indus, VI, 17, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
True equality consists in each drawing benefits from society in exact proportion to his social outlay, that is to his real capacity, to the beneficent use he makes of his abilities. And this equality is the natural foundation of industrial society. -
“Syst. Indus, VI, 17, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
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“In the old system Society is governed essentially by men; in the new it is governed only by principles”
Org, IV, 197, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958) -
“Org, IV, 197, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)”
In the old system Society is governed essentially by men; in the new it is governed only by principles
Henri de Saint-Simon on Mind
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“The whole of society rests upon industry. Industry is the sole guarantee of its existence, the single source of all its wealth and all its prosperity. The state of things most favorable to industry is by that very reason the most favorable to society.”
L'Industrie , in Œuvres de Saint-Simon , Vol. 18 (Paris, 1868), p. 13
Henri de Saint-Simon on Nature
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“True equality consists in each drawing benefits from society in exact proportion to his social outlay, that is to his real capacity, to the beneficent use he makes of his abilities. And this equality is the natural foundation of industrial society.”
Syst. Indus, VI, 17, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958) -
“Equality is the natural foundation of industrial society”
Syst. Indus, VI, 17, as quoted from E.Durkheim, Socialism and Saint-Simon (1958)
Henri de Saint-Simon on Politics
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Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:
“From each according to his capacity, to each according to his work.”
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Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:
“Industrial society replaces feudal society.”
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Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:
“The whole of society ought to strive toward the amelioration of the moral and physical existence of the poorest class.”
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Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:
“The age of the producers replaces the age of the warriors.”
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“Politics is the science of production . De L'Industrie (1816), in Saint-Simon: sa víe et ses travaux (1857), by M. G. Hubbard, pp. 156–157”
La politique est … la science de la production.
Henri de Saint-Simon on Time
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“Today, for the first time since the existence of societies it is a question of organizing a totally new system; of replacing the celestial with the terrestrial, the vague by the positive, and the poetic by the real.”
L'Industrie , as quoted in L'Ami de la Religion et du Roi: journal ecclésiastique, politique et littéraire , No. 336 (29 October 1817)
Henri de Saint-Simon on Virtue
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“The progress of the human mind, the revolutions which occur in the development of knowledge, give each century its special character.”
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