"Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists……" — David Graeber
"Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist."
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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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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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It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis…
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More Anarchism Quotes
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise…
— Edward Abbey
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Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form,…
— Gustav Landauer
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Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State…
— Roderick T. Long
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
— Andre Breton
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If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse…
— Errico Malatesta
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Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human…
— Errico Malatesta
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Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and…
— Errico Malatesta
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Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and…
— Errico Malatesta
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Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
— Ludwig von Mises
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