Latest David Harvey Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  David Harvey

  Wish, Kind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• 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