Pierre Clastres famous quotes

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It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is a history of their struggle against the state.
-- Pierre Clastres

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Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Man has become great through struggle
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

Pierre Clastres famous quotes

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