Firsts Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not…

— Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

— Abraham Lincoln

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

— Pope Leo I

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor,…

— Leland Stanford

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

— David Harvey

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

— Vladimir Lenin

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they…

— William Cowper Brann

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force,…

— Henry George

Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.

— Ash Sarkar

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

— Alexander Crummell