We must, even in our honest political fervor, fear neither partisan criticism nor self-criticism. For the pretense of perfection is not one of the marks of good public servants.

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.

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

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

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.