The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies …

- James C. Scott

I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes …

- James C. Scott

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international …

- James C. Scott

I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life; as an anthrop…

- James C. Scott

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my lif…

- James C. Scott

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

- James C. Scott

What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some capitalist r…

- James C. Scott

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

- James C. Scott

It seems to me that rumors and dreams of justice are part of a dialectic of injustice and dreams of justice will be with us for as long as there's in…

- James C. Scott