David Graeber Quotes

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society.

Revolutions are like onions. You peel away layer after layer.

History is a relay of revolutions

China can never be reformed from within. The manifold needs of China will be met permanently, completely, only by Christian civilization. .

I like to be a part of shows that are trying to make waves and changes.

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for violence control.

People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. The things that are happening in Detroit would amaze you if you're used to only looking at statistics, and only thinking of blacks as sufferers and not as activists.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.