David Graeber Quotes

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• As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. All
• If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by… All
• [A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in… All
• 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 the… Acknowledge
• We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is… All

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