James C. Scott quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by James C. Scott

James C. Scott Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from James C. Scott on Wise Famous Quotes.

We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

It took about one century for them [the negative consequences] to show up clearly. Many

Only an elaborate treatise in ecology could do justice to the subject of what went wrong,