Capital, Volume III Quotes

“...the tool becomes a machine.”

“[Here the manuscript breaks off.]”

“Value is labour.”

“The labour of exploiting is just as much labour as exploited labour.”

“In commercial practice, the turnover is generally calculated inaccurately.”

“But a waterfall cannot be created by capital out of itself.”

“'''The real barrier of capitalist production is'' capital itself'''''.”

“The chief means of reducing the time of circulation is improved communications.”

“It is in the circulation process that money develops into capital.”

“Without the ban on interest churches and cloisters would never have become so affluent.”

“The conceptions of the merchant, stockbroker, and banker, are necessarily quite distorted.”

“It does not take more time to deal with large figures than with small ones.”

“Universal labour is all scientific labour, all discovery and all invention.”

“Capital is now a thing, but as a thing it is capital. Money is now pregnant.”

“Slavery on the basis of capitalist production is unjust; likewise fraud in the quality of commodities.”

“But what is money? Money is not a thing, but a definite form of value, hence, value is again presupposed.”

“...the wage slave, it is true, can become a creditor's slave in his capacity as consumer.”

“Wikipedia: Capital, Volume III”

“The capitalist's profit is derived from the fact that he has something to sell for which he has paid nothing.”

“Business is always thoroughly sound and the campaign is in full swing, until suddenly the debacle takes place.”