“Machinery which is not used is not capital.”

“In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.”

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

“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.”

“I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.”

“Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.”