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

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

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

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.

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.