Quotes by : David Graeber

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one....

In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central....

Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing....

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look....

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the....

This is a great trap of the twentieth century: on one side is the logic of the market, where we like....

Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual....

When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the....

Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system....

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was....