Pierre Clastres Quotes

#1. Knowledge is the ability to obtain, process and use information, so that it benefits you as an asset and not a liability

Kloby

#2. Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

Laozi

#3. For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.

Richard Shepard

#4. Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.

Gordon MacQuarrie

#5. I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection ... I will always be learning.

Conor McGregor

#6. The mission of the church is missions.

Oswald J. Smith

#7. 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

#8. With mounting concern, I learned that having a £600 handbag is like having a crush on the Joker in Batman. You MUST do it. It is an irreducible fact of being a woman.

Caitlin Moran

#9. It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.

Pierre Clastres