Eric Wolf Quotes

Although I wrote as an anthropologist rather than as a professional historian, I think history matters. It is also important to understand how an why these systems develop and extend their sway over people, and I located the rationale in the ways power and the economy sustain and drive each other on.

Eric Wolf

Quotes to Explore

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

Samantha Bond
- Parent
- Loss
- Prepare
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

H. P. Lovecraft
- People
- Write
- Interested
I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

Sadie Jones
- People
- Remember
- Black
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.

H. P. Lovecraft
- Most
- Terror
- Sacred
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

Malcolm Gladwell
- Good
- School
- Risk
If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

Rafael Cruz
- Work
- Country
- Together