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

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

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.

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

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

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