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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money - capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.