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

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

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

“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”

“Therefore let us sell our labour for what it is worth. And if an industry cannot buy our labour, let that industry die. But let us not sell our labour cheap to keep an industry alive.”

“Persons born in wealth and luxury seldom achieve greatness. They were not born for labour; and, without labour, nothing that is worth having can be won.”