"It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative……" — David Graeber

"It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization."

— David Graeber

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25 Quotes by David Graeber

David Graeber has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will…
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or…
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we…
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no…
Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better…
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many…
But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not…
Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee…
If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also…
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis…

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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a… — Mary Kay Ash
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule,… — Rowan Atkinson
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax,… — Michele Bachmann
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because… — Gerry Adams
You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy. — Lewis Black
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good… — Tom Brokaw
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and… — Jerome Bruner
Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here. — George H. W. Bush
The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative. — George W. Bush
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. — Maurice Chevalier
You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down -… — Chris Christie
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best… — Winston Churchill

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