Business Quote by Karl Marx

“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class of labourers,…

— Karl Marx

“this fetishism of the world of commodities arises from the peculiar social character of the labor which produces them.”

— Juliet Schor

“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the…

— Karl Marx

“it is the blood of the peasant, the sweat of the weaver, the flesh of the artisan, the words of the poet, the trade…

— Anand Neelakantan

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares that compete…

— Karl Marx

“Although per capita income doubled during the half-century, not all sectors of society shared equally in this abundance. While both rich and poor enjoyed…

— James M. McPherson

“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— Karl Marx

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a…

— Immanuel Kant

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no…

— Paul Lafargue

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero