Browsing Quotes With Tag: history (6)
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[The] great embarrassing fact that haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. More than anything else, the endless recitation of the myth of barter, employed much like an incantation, is the economists’ way of fending off any possibility of having to confront it.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To begin to free ourselves, the first thing we need to do is to see ourselves again as historical actors, as people who can make a difference in the course of world events. This is exactly what the militarization of history is trying to take away.
Even if we are at the beginning of the turn of a very long historical cycle, it’s still largely up to us to determine how it’s going to turn out. For instance: the last time we shifted from a bullion economy to one of virtual credit money, at the end of the Axial Age and the beginning of the Middle Ages, the immediate shift was experienced largely as a series of great catastrophes. Will it be the same this time around? Presumably a lot depends on how consciously we set out to ensure that it won’t be.Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction – so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people’s movements – that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.
...Most histories understand revolt, overemphasize statesmanship, and thus encourage impotency among citizens.
Speaker: Howard ZinnSource: A People's History of the United StatesPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Speaker: Willa CatherSource: O Pioneers!Posted: 19 Nov 2009 at 9:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Speaker: Mahatma GandhiSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic.
Speaker: Joseph StalinPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!