Completion Quote by David Graeber Download Open image “A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.” — David Graeber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Completion Debt
Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Recall an idea from earlier in the book: exchange, unless it’s an instantaneous cash transaction, creates debts. Debts linger over time. If you imagine… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
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… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political contention.” — David Graeber Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah, it's roughly… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Although it may appear as though there have been many miracles in the world, a true miracle has never come to pass. A true… — Woo Myung Copy Share Image
Having my son, it's such a sense of completion as a woman; it's put me at peace. — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I don't need someone who is perfect, because nobody is perfect. I just need someone who can complete me. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Don't look for someone to complete you, complete yourself or you'll feel empty when they leave — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you." "We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam replied. "Good." Grandfather's eyes smiled. "That means you had the… — Sheila Moon Copy Share Image
When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
