--- title: "14 Way Quotes By David Graeber" description: "14 Way quotes by David Graeber. Plus more from David Graeber and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/david-graeber-4667_investing_when-you-take-away-the-violence-from-the_2154799.png" --- > [When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/when-you-take-away-the-violence-from-the-market-even-it-starts/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/david-graeber-4667_investing_when-you-take-away-the-violence-from-the_2154799.png) > [It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/it-is-assumed-in-many-parts-of-the-world-that-democracy-is-a-group-of/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f1/david-graeber-4667_certain_it-is-assumed-in-many-parts-of-the-world_3034943.png) > [Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/debt-is-the-most-effective-way-to-take-a-relation-of-violent/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a2/david-graeber-4667_debt_debt-is-the-most-effective-way-to-take-a_1618805.png) > [I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/i-think-we-need-to-think-of-capitalism-as-a-very-bad-way-of/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/david-graeber-4667_capitalism_i-think-we-need-to-think-of-capitalism-a_1803832.png) > [Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/anarchism-is-surprisingly-effective-in-solving-actual-problems/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/david-graeber-4667_anarchism_anarchism-is-surprisingly-effective-in-s_788985.jpg) > [We need each other to do things that we can't do for ourselves. If we are intimately connected with each other, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/we-need-each-other-to-do-things-that-we-can-t-do-for-ourselves-if-we/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/david-graeber-4667_ability_we-need-each-other-to-do-things-that-we_340944.jpg) > [We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/we-are-usually-told-that-democracy-originated-in-ancient-athens-like/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f39/david-graeber-4667_ancient_we-are-usually-told-that-democracy-origi_2874421.png) > [There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/there-are-markets-extending-from-mali-indonesia-way-outside-the/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/879/david-graeber-4667_contracts_there-are-markets-extending-from-mali-in_527967.jpg) > [The best way to think about anarchism is as a combination of three levels. On the one hand, the sort of instinctual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/the-best-way-to-think-about-anarchism-is-as-a-combination-of-three/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/david-graeber-4667_anarchism_the-best-way-to-think-about-anarchism-is_2294322.png) > [Capitalism is like this fractal thing where anything that contains an element of capitalism anywhere inside it is just something that turns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/capitalism-is-like-this-fractal-thing-where-anything-that-contains-an/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/david-graeber-4667_attitude_capitalism-is-like-this-fractal-thing-wh_3201521.png) > [The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/the-question-we-should-be-asking-is-not-why-people-are-sometimes/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/david-graeber-4667_admirable_the-question-we-should-be-asking-is-not_1001272.jpg) > [If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/if-history-shows-anything-it-is-that-there-s-no-better-way-to-justify/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa4/david-graeber-4667_better-way_if-history-shows-anything-it-is-that-the_523209.png) > [Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/student-loans-are-destroying-the-imagination-of-youth-if-there-s-a/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ac/david-graeber-4667_ability_student-loans-are-destroying-the-imagina_2613069.png) > [You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/you-would-think-that-if-neoliberals-were-in-any-way-honest-after-the/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44a/david-graeber-4667_army_you-would-think-that-if-neoliberals-were_2288146.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by David Graeber > [People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/people-don-t-have-an-ongoing-relation-unless-it-s-a-form-of-debt/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/i-would-like-then-to-end-by-putting-in-a-good-word-for-the-non/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/but-if-smith-was-right-and-gold-and-silver-became-money-through-the/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/a-revolution-on-a-world-scale-will-take-a-very-long-time-but-it-is/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political conten­tion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/money-has-no-essence-it-s-not-really-anything-therefore-its-nature/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/we-don-t-live-in-a-capitalist-totality-capitalism-couldn-t-survive-as/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“About the only thing we can imagine is catastrophe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/about-the-only-thing-we-can-imagine-is-catastrophe/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/the-working-poor-are-the-people-suffering-out-subprime-mortgages-and/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/solitary-pleasures-will-always-exist-but-for-most-human-beings-the/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/imf-is-really-designed-to-protect-creditors-not-debtors/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/the-criminalization-of-debt-then-was-the-criminalization-of-the-very/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/if-you-imagine-that-everything-is-an-exchange-then-we-re-supposed-to/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“As Pierre Bourdieu was later to point out in describing a similar economy of trust in contemporary Algeria: it’s quite possible to turn honor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/as-pierre-bourdieu-was-later-to-point-out-in-describing-a-similar/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [ \[A\] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/a-great-embarrassing-fact-haunts-all-attempts-to-represent-the-market/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) > [“As the events of 2011 reveal, the age of revolutions is by no means over. The human imagination stubbornly refuses to die. And the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/as-the-events-of-2011-reveal-the-age-of-revolutions-is-by-no-means/) [David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/david-graeber/#itemlist", "name": "14 Way Quotes By David Graeber", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Graeber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/when-you-take-away-the-violence-from-the-market-even-it-starts/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/david-graeber-4667_investing_when-you-take-away-the-violence-from-the_2154799.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/david-graeber-4667_investing_when-you-take-away-the-violence-from-the_2154799.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/david-graeber-4667_investing_when-you-take-away-the-violence-from-the_2154799.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly…” — David Graeber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Graeber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/it-is-assumed-in-many-parts-of-the-world-that-democracy-is-a-group-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f1/david-graeber-4667_certain_it-is-assumed-in-many-parts-of-the-world_3034943.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f1/david-graeber-4667_certain_it-is-assumed-in-many-parts-of-the-world_3034943.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f1/david-graeber-4667_certain_it-is-assumed-in-many-parts-of-the-world_3034943.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who…” — David Graeber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Graeber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/debt-is-the-most-effective-way-to-take-a-relation-of-violent/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a2/david-graeber-4667_debt_debt-is-the-most-effective-way-to-take-a_1618805.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a2/david-graeber-4667_debt_debt-is-the-most-effective-way-to-take-a_1618805.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a2/david-graeber-4667_debt_debt-is-the-most-effective-way-to-take-a_1618805.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that…” — David Graeber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. 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