# Quote — David Harvey, The Limits to Capital

> " workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings."

- 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: 263
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Harvey#The_Limits_To_Capital_(2006_VERSO_Edition)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/workers-then-have

## More from this book

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

p. 338 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/the-accumulation-of-capital.md)

> 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)