Capital Quotes

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.

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Property is the fruit of labor... Labor is superior to capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

While we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.