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....

So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have done....

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....

This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call it....

As a result, amongst working-class Americans, government is now generally seen as being made up of two....

If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then....

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

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore....