“To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.”

“Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.”

“You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.”

“Divorce of the intellect from body-labour has made of us the shortest-lived, most resourceless and most exploited nation on earth.(This is about Indians - due to caste division).”

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”

“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.”