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