Economics-society Quote by 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

“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great,…

— William Graham Sumner

Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and…

— Louis O. Kelso

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

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

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

— Pope Leo I

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

— Vladimir Lenin

“But capital goes wherever there are men, poor enough to be exploited.”

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in…

— Abraham Lincoln