"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."

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

David Harvey

#Fall Quotes #Class Quotes #Surrender Quotes

“The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.”
“I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.”
“The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.”
“Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.”
“Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (1956). “Lady sings the blues”
“The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.”
“If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.”

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