Quotes About Robert Owen

All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.

Robert Owen's was a true insight: market economy if left to evolve according to its own laws would create great and permanent evils.

Socialism" became an English word in 1827, when Cooperative Magazine described Welsh reformer Robert Owen (1771–1858) as a socialist—an advocate of the view that industrial wealth should be owned in common, on a cooperative basis. Owen was the first Briton to grasp the meaning of the Industrial Revolution.