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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.