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David Graeber quotes: Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

David Graeber quotes: Police are bureaucrats with weapons.

Police are bureaucrats with weapons.

David Graeber quotes: IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.

IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.

David Graeber quotes: Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

David Graeber quotes: Freedom has to be in tension with something, or it's just randomness.

Freedom has to be in tension with something, or it's just randomness.

David Graeber quotes: Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

David Graeber quotes: As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Graeber quotes: For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. -

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. -

David Graeber quotes: As Max Weber long ago pointed out, once one sets up a genuinely effective bureaucracy, it's almost impossible to get rid of it.

As Max Weber long ago pointed out, once one sets up a genuinely effective bureaucracy, it's almost impossible to get rid of it.

David Graeber quotes: It's those who do not have the power to hire and fire who are left with the work of figuring out what actually did go wrong

It's those who do not have the power to hire and fire who are left with the work of figuring out what actually did go wrong

David Graeber quotes: ... one must oneself, in relations with one's friends and allies, embody the society one wishes to create.

... one must oneself, in relations with one's friends and allies, embody the society one wishes to create.

David Graeber quotes: The organization of the Soviet Union was directly modeled on that of the German postal service.

The organization of the Soviet Union was directly modeled on that of the German postal service.

David Graeber quotes: It's not that we owe "society." If there is any notion of "society" here - and it's not clear that there is - society is our debts.

It's not that we owe "society." If there is any notion of "society" here - and it's not clear that there is - society is our debts.

David Graeber quotes: All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves.

All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves.

David Graeber quotes: What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.

What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.

David Graeber quotes: Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

David Graeber quotes: Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

David Graeber quotes: wage-labor contracts in the ancient world were primarily a matter of the rental of slaves - a

wage-labor contracts in the ancient world were primarily a matter of the rental of slaves - a

David Graeber quotes: A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

David Graeber quotes: In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

David Graeber quotes: Then you ask: what, within this cosmos, is the opposite of a vampire? The answer is obvious. The opposite of a vampire is a werewolf.

Then you ask: what, within this cosmos, is the opposite of a vampire? The answer is obvious. The opposite of a vampire is a werewolf.

David Graeber quotes: The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

David Graeber quotes: About the only thing we can imagineis catastrophe.

About the only thing we can imagine
is catastrophe.

David Graeber quotes: I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.

I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.

David Graeber quotes: Banks are institutions to which the government has granted the power to create money - or,

Banks are institutions to which the government has granted the power to create money - or,

David Graeber quotes: The real origins of money are to be found in crime and recompense, war and slavery, honor, debt, and redemption. That,

The real origins of money are to be found in crime and recompense, war and slavery, honor, debt, and redemption. That,

David Graeber quotes: There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

David Graeber quotes: What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

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 quotes: It is a strange, repetitive feature of action movies that the infuriating go-by-the-rules boss of the maverick hero is almost invariably Black.)

It is a strange, repetitive feature of action movies that the infuriating go-by-the-rules boss of the maverick hero is almost invariably Black.)

David Graeber quotes: Power makes you lazy.

Power makes you lazy.