David Graeber on history

It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.

Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.

What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler1889–1945

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman1884–1972