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

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.

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

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.