"The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract."

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Source : Ancient Law ch. 5 (1861)

Henry James Sumner Maine

#Movement Quotes #Politics Quotes #Progressive Quotes

“True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.”
“There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.”
“I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.”
“Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective â€“ itâ€™s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. Itâ€™s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.”
“There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.”

Source : E. Nesbit (1907). “The Enchanted Castle”, p.170, Lulu.com
“It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.”
“The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.”
“I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.”

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