The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity — Quotes
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Author: David Graeber & David Wengrow Source: Goodreads
21 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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- “We are projects of collective self-creation. What if…”
- “Max Planck once remarked that new scientific truths…”
- “Most people today also believe they live in…”
- “That indigenous Americans lived in generally free societies…”
- “If human beings, through most of our history…”
- “If something did go terribly wrong in human…”
- “Perhaps this is what a state actually is…”
- “One might ask, how could that most basic…”
- “They are also difficult to reconcile with archaeological…”
- “None of this variability is surprising once we…”
- “How inevitable, really, were the type of governments…”
- “Almost all these Amerindian societies took pride in…”
- “History, in Renaissance Europe of the fifteenth to…”
- “We are projects of collective self-creation…”
- “It is much the same with the question…”
- “When sovereignty first expands to become the general…”
- “When an Indian Child has been brought up…”
- “We do not have to choose any more…”
- “Social theory is largely a game of make-believe…”
No book given
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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