David Graeber Quotes
To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life—even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
-
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
-
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
-
It's nice not to be too boring.
-
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
-
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-
I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
-
Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
-
I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
-
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
-
I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
-
Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
-
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
-
You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
-
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
-
I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
-
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
-
I love Aretha and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.
-
It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.
-
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
-
To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life—even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.
