Appropriation Quote by Karl Marx

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

— Amadeo Bordiga

Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means…

— William Graham Sumner

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 reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

— Karl Marx

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is…

— Brooks Atkinson

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us…

— Liz Truss

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there…

— John D. Rockefeller

“Capital requires the separation of the worker from the means of production and subsistence”

— Peter Linebaugh

“But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses…

— Karl Marx

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

— Abraham Lincoln

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its…

— William Booth