Marshall Sahlins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.
-- Marshall Sahlins

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One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.
-- Marshall Sahlins

#Night #Humanity #Age
Gifts make friends and friends make gifts.
-- Marshall Sahlins
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.
-- Marshall Sahlins

#Mean #Civilization #Class
Beyond Bookchinâ€, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; â€œWe are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they donâ€™t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.
-- Marshall Sahlins

#Thinking #Hunters #Arguing
Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.
-- Marshall Sahlins

#Thinking #Hunters #Arguing

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

Marshall Sahlins famous quotes

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