Quotes by : David Graeber

The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely....

Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to 'covet thy neighbor's wife' clearly....

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can....

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....

Visible alternatives shatter the sense of inevitability, that the system must, necessarily, be patched....

But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely....

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly....

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

The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state....