"[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to……" — 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 in theft."
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25 Quotes by David Graeber
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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will…
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or…
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States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we…
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Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no…
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Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better…
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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many…
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But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not…
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee…
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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