Affluence Quote by Louis O. Kelso

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to…

— Paul Lafargue

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

— Ferdinand Lassalle

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

— Peter Linebaugh

“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth.…

— Eli Siegel

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

— Bobby Seale

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all…

— Karl Marx

Capitalism created the possibility of employment.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from…

— Martin Adams

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture…

— Sun Yat-sen

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it…

— Friedrich Engels

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