Lewis Henry Morgan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.
-- Lewis Henry Morgan

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Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman
-- Lewis Henry Morgan

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A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.
-- Lewis Henry Morgan

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Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.
-- Lewis Henry Morgan

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The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.
-- Lewis Henry Morgan

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The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.
-- Lewis Henry Morgan

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You canâ€™t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
Take it from me, every vote counts.
Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

Lewis Henry Morgan famous quotes

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