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> [The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/the-world-of-rumor-and-gossip-is-like-a-privileged-world-with-which-a/)

[James C. Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-c-scott/)

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## More by James C. Scott

> [The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/the-world-of-rumor-and-gossip-is-like-a-privileged-world-with-which-a/)

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> [“A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a language, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/a-language-is-the-joint-historical-creation-of-millions-of-speakers/)

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> [“What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/what-is-inadmissible-both-morally-and-scientifically-is-the-hubris/)

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> [“Not so very long ago, however, such self-governing peoples were the majority of humankind. Today, they are seen from the valley kingdoms as “our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/not-so-very-long-ago-however-such-self-governing-peoples-were-the/)

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> [“Nothing could be further from the truth. All identities, without exception, have been socially constructed: the Han, the Burman, the American, the Danish, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/nothing-could-be-further-from-the-truth-all-identities-without/)

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> [“One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/one-day-you-will-be-called-upon-to-break-a-big-law-in-the-name-of/)

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> [I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about how the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/i-always-believed-that-social-science-was-a-progressive-profession/)

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> [It seems to me that rumors and dreams of justice are part of a dialectic of injustice and dreams of justice will be with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/it-seems-to-me-that-rumors-and-dreams-of-justice-are-part-of-a/)

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> [“As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: “You can drop a mouse down a thousandyard mineshaft; and on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/as-the-biologist-j-b-s-haldane-metaphorically-described-the/)

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> [“Early Near Eastern villages domesticated plants and animals. Uruk urban institutions, in turn, domesticated humans.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/early-near-eastern-villages-domesticated-plants-and-animals-uruk/)

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> [“First, the visionary intellectuals and planners behind them were guilty of hubris, of forgetting that they were mortals and acting as if they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/first-the-visionary-intellectuals-and-planners-behind-them-were/)

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> [It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/it-s-hard-to-see-any-institutional-structure-that-stands-in-the-way/)

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> [“Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order. This truth is best illustrated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/designed-or-planned-social-order-is-necessarily-schematic-it-always/)

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> [I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/i-was-trained-as-a-political-scientist-and-the-profession-bores-me-to/)

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> [Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/finally-i-decided-that-since-peasants-were-the-largest-segment-of-the/)

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