Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I came to the conclusion that most people in America would really like to be able to get a job where they think they're doing something noble and nice and good and it isn't just for the money. But the reason they hate what they call the cultural elite is that they see it as a class that's grabbed all the jobs where you can get paid to do something that isn't just for the money - if it's art, if it's charity, if it's intellectual, if it's political, whatever it might be.

David Graeber's Popular Quotes

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

- David Graeber

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

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

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

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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.

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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil e…

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

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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

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

- David Graeber