# Quote — David Harvey, The Limits to Capital

> Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

- Author: [David Harvey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey.md)
- Book: [The Limits to Capital](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital.md)
- Page: 445
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/not-only-must

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> The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.

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> There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

p. 442 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/there-is-in-short.md)

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

p. 347 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/because-the-earth.md)