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“An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.”

Mean Values Products Increase Productivity Labour

Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

“The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .”

Values Realizing Labour Circulation

Author:Karl Marx

“For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.”

Giving Doe Values Community Results Money Folks Productive Labour Value Of Money

Book:On National Socialism and World Relations: Speech Delivered in the German Reichstag on January 30th 1937

Source: On National Socialism and World Relations: Speech Delivered in the German Reichstag on January 30th 1937

“Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.”

Moments Values Lost Views Forever Influence Judging Labour Articles Commerce Utility Bygones

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.”

Two Values Source Labour Quantity Commodity Utility Possessing Scarcity

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.”

Ifs Giving Wells May Values Figures Theory Capitalism Hatred Insight Oppression Bitter Plenty Labour Sheep Witchcraft Flocks Complacent Arsenic

Book:Essay on Marxian Economics

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.”

Earth Values Products Labour

Author:David Harvey

“Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.”

Love Giving Light Values All Things Labour Alone In Love

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.”

Ifs Way Might Would Be Values Labour Quantity Commodity Gratification Scarce Destitute

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.”

Giving Values Produce Cost Labor Labour Quantity

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive

Source: The Crown of Wild Olive