David Graeber Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

  David Graeber

  Debt, Way, Violence

  David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.16, Melville House

• 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

  Math, Promise, Violence

  David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.505, Melville House

• Capitalism is like this fractal thing where anything that contains an element of capitalism anywhere inside it is just something that turns into capitalism. It is an incredibly defeatist attitude. If you choose to look at reality that way, I suppose you can, but you have to do enormous violence to reality to do so consistently.

  David Graeber

  Attitude, Reality, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

  David Graeber

  Paradise, Way, Shifting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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