The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

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

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

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

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.