Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Half‑finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self - earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.