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

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

- 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

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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…

- David Graeber