The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value.

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

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