The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money - capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

All our inventions and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.

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

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