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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

Police are bureaucrats with weapons. — David Graeber

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody loves you the way they do when you're dying. — Charles Graeber

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

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

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

About the only thing we can imagine
is catastrophe. — David Graeber

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

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

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

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

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

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

Power makes you lazy. — David Graeber