Henri de Saint-Simon

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"Every social regime is an application of a philosophic system, and... consequently it is impossible to institute a new regime, without having first established the new philosophical system to which it should correspond."

— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)

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"The philosophical revolution has long since begun, because we should trace its origins back to the study of positive sciences introduced into Europe by the Arabs more than ten centuries ago. To complete this revolution we have to accomplish only one more thing: we must finish the comprehensive work necessary for the organisation of a positive system, whose elements now exist isolated."

— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)

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"The affairs of mankind, or of any of those smaller political societies which we call nations, are always either in one or the other of two states, one of them in its nature durable, the other essentially transitory. The former of these we may term the natural state, the latter the transitional."

— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)

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“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)

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“Politics is the science of production.”

— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)

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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.”

— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)

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“In the old system Society is governed essentially by men; in the new it is governed only by principles”

— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)

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“Equality is the natural foundation of industrial society”

— Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)