Quote by James C. Scott Download Open image ““We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.”” — James C. Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“defense of states and rights is impossible to undertake if no one learns from the past or believes in the future.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“most of human history (chronologically speaking) has taken place in communities quite innocent of state power.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
“an unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.” — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“Control over reality determines that the desired state can exist.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.” — Phillipians 4 11 Copy Share Image
“if the belief or practice is ancient, foreign, and preferably Eastern, it has immediate authority and wisdom.” — Karen Stollznow Copy Share Image
The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a language, the… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Not so very long ago, however, such self-governing peoples were the majority of humankind. Today, they are seen from the valley kingdoms as “our… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be further from the truth. All identities, without exception, have been socially constructed: the Han, the Burman, the American, the Danish, all… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it.… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about how the… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
It seems to me that rumors and dreams of justice are part of a dialectic of injustice and dreams of justice will be with… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: “You can drop a mouse down a thousandyard mineshaft; and on… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Early Near Eastern villages domesticated plants and animals. Uruk urban institutions, in turn, domesticated humans.” — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“First, the visionary intellectuals and planners behind them were guilty of hubris, of forgetting that they were mortals and acting as if they were… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism,… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
