David Harvey Quotes

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• The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Change, Freedom, Exercise

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

  David Harvey

  Change, Freedom, Urbanization

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

  David Harvey

  Urbanization, Cities, Liberty

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

  David Harvey

  Hands, Space, Misery

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.

  David Harvey

  Fall, Class, Surrender

  David Harvey (2010). “The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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• Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of culture is very easy to replicate. The uniqueness begins to disappear. Then, we have what I call the "Disneyfication" of society.

  David Harvey

  Unique, Special, Culture

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.

  David Harvey

  Wish, Kind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

  David Harvey

  Expansion, Social, Capitalist

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

  David Harvey

  Earth, Products, Labour

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 2006 VERSO Edition,

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• My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

  David Harvey

  Advice, Environmental, Inequality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• People must get active; go outside; get moving. This is a crucial time. You know, massive wealth and capital haven't budged one bit, so far. We have to give it a huge push if we want to see something different in our society. We need to create mechanisms and forms of organization which reflect the needs and wants of society as a whole, not just a privileged-oligarchic class of individuals.

  David Harvey

  Moving, People, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

  David Harvey

  Order, Space, Common Sense

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• Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

  David Harvey

  Land, Quagmire, May

  "The Limits to Capital". Book by David Harvey, 2006 VERSO Edition,

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• Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

  David Harvey

  Skills, Anathema

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

  David Harvey

  Upset, Demand, Reactions

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Capital creates space-time.

  David Harvey

  Space, Space Time

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, Introduction to the Verso Edition, 2006.

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• The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

  David Harvey

  People, Population, Income

  David Harvey (2013). “Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom”, p.58, Columbia University Press

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• We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition. Well, it turns out that capitalists do everything they can to avoid competition.

  David Harvey

  Entrepreneur, Competition, Capitalist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

  David Harvey

  Achievement, Wealth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

  David Harvey

  Ifs, Labour

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

  David Harvey

  Technological Change, Obsolescence, Rate

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in Russia and China) creating, the power of an economic elite. The theoretical utopianism of neoliberal argument has, I conclude, primarily worked as a system of justification and legitimation for whatever needed to be done to achieve this goal.

  David Harvey

  Russia, Creating, Goal

  David Harvey (2007). “A Brief History of Neoliberalism”, p.27, OUP Oxford

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• The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

  David Harvey

  Contradiction, Abolition, Capitalism

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

  David Harvey

  Snakes, Skins, Peculiar

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Money must exist before it can be turned into capital.

  David Harvey

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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