Abstract Labor Quotes

#1. Common reference to abstract labor. Marx therefore notes: "Money as a measure of value is the necessary form of appearance of the measure of value which is intrinsic to commodities, namely labour-time" (Capital, 1:188).

Anonymous

#2. As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

Karl Marx

#3. There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged.

Howard Zinn

#4. Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#5. If frogs could fly - well, we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

Drew Carey

#6. How Heavy the Days ...
How heavy the days are.
There's not a fire that can warm me,
Not a sun to laugh with me,
Everything bare,
Everything cold and merciless,
And even the beloved, clear
Stars look desolately down,
Since I learned in my heart that
Love can die.

Hermann Hesse

#7. What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

Karl Marx

#8. Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.

Wilfred Owen

#9. An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#10. Don't do this.
I have every intention of doing this. I have since the first time you looked at me with the same need that I felt every damn day.

B.B. Reid

#11. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Mark Fisher

#12. There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.

George William Curtis

#13. Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

Salman Rushdie

#14. You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

Marquis De Sade