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David Harvey Inspirational Quotes (34)

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The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.
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The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.
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The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims... but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.
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Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.
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The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
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The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.
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The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.
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So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?
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In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund
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The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.
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What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.
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All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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Capital creates space-time.
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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.
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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.
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It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.
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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.
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Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
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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.
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Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.
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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.
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The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
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The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.
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