"Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all……" — David Graeber
"Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves."
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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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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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It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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