The more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it. —David Graeber More about this quote Tags: money work charity salary compensation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from David Graeber Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom — that the current economic and political system is the only possible one — the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone's blueprint? —David Graeber More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom — that the current economic and political system is the only possible one — the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone's blueprint? —David Graeber More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “charity” The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. —William Hutton More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Charity begins at home. —Terence More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. —Thomas Browne More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In charity there is no excess. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. —Jack London More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. —William Hutton More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Charity begins at home. —Terence More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. —Thomas Browne More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In charity there is no excess. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. —Jack London More about this quote Tags: charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
