Lewis Henry Morgan quotes
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“The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.”
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“Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman”
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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 MorganSource : Lewis Henry Morgan (1877). “Ancient Society”, p.6, University of Arizona Press
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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.”
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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 MorganSource : Lewis Henry Morgan, Leslie A. White (1959). “The Indian Journals, 1859-62”, p.12, Courier Corporation
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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 MorganSource : Lewis Henry Morgan (1877). “Ancient Society”, p.477, University of Arizona Press
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“You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.”
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“Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.”
Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
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“Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.”
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“Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.”
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“The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.”
Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd
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