Quote by Clifford Geertz

"The way to understand the Balinese is to understand how they see themselves, not to impose our categories upon them."

"Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun."

"Culture is not a power, something to which social events, behaviors, institutions, or processes can be causally attributed; it is a context, something within which they can be intelligibly described."

"Thick description is the goal of ethnographic writing."

"Fear drives civilization. Without it, there is only chaos."

"Order through chaos. That's the only real answer."

"Politics and power corrupt when they're separated from purpose."

"The system isn't broken—it was built this way. We have to rebuild it."