The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self - earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

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.