But a waterfall cannot be created by capital out of itself. — Capital, Volume III

"The landlord is always ready to draw a rent,i.e., to receive something for nothing. But capital requires certain conditions to fulfil his wish."

"Vulgar economy actually does no more than interpret, systematise and defend in doctrinaire fashion the conceptions of the agents of bourgeois production who are entrapped in bourgeois production relations."

"The capitalists profit is derived from the fact that he has something to sell for which he has paid nothing."

"Most of the banks in Australia, the West Indies, and Canada, have been founded with English capital, and the dividends are payable in England."

"Excretions of consumption are the natural waste matter discharged by the human body, remains of clothing in the form of rags, etc. Excretions of consumption are of the greatest importance for agriculture. So far as their utilisation is concerned, there is an enormous waste of them in the capitalist economy. In London, for instance, they find no better use for the excretion of four million human beings than to contaminate the Thames with it at heavy expense."

"the profit made in selling depends on cheating, deceit, inside knowledge, skill and a thousand favorable market opportunities;"