David Graeber
Anthropology
American
1961 – 2020
53 quotes
An anarchist anthropologist known for his work on debt, bureaucracy, and the history of money, and his activism in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Quotes by David Graeber
Bureaucracy turns life into paperwork.
The Utopia of Rules
2015
The past teaches us that change is possible.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
2011
Solidarity is the soul of social movements.
The Democracy Project
2013
Value emerges from creativity, not scarcity.
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
2001
Freedom means the power to invent ourselves.
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
2004
Jobs that serve no purpose breed resentment.
Bullshit Jobs
2018
History is written by those who resist.
Direct Action: An Ethnography
2009
Imagination without action is mere daydreaming.
The Democracy Project
2013
The absurdities of modern life are bureaucratic inventions.
The Utopia of Rules
2015
Debt is a promise crystallized into a thing.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
2011
Anthropology reveals the diversity of human worlds.
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
2001
True wealth is time well spent.
Bullshit Jobs
2018
Revolution is not a spectacle; it's participation.
Direct Action: An Ethnography
2009