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.

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.

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

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

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.