Surplus Value Quotes

#1. The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentration is illuminating. ( ... ) Against the industrial organization of death, animals have no other recourse, no other possible defiance, except suicide.

Jean Baudrillard

#2. I love the Army-Navy surplus store Surplus Value Center. They have really good long underwear and multicolored bandanas, cool camo jackets, and really, really scary-looking knives. If you're into that sort of thing.

Jill Soloway

#3. Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year - and setting their compensation for themselves - are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.

Michael Harrington

#4. The Theory of Surplus Value means that anytime you hire someone, you are exploiting him. If you pay someone to fix your automobile, he has the right, by virtue of being your mechanic, to steal your car.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Most of these first nine chapters prepare the ground for, and then introduce, the notion of surplus value.

Anonymous

#6. It is therefore only at the money moment - the moment of capitalist universality - that we can tell where we are in relation to value and surplus-value.

David Harvey

#7. The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

Edward Carpenter

#8. Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are ... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Karl Marx

#9. Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

Rudolf Hiferding

#10. The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

Karl Marx

#11. I give him (Frank Howard during April 28, 1968 two-hitter) shoulder, back, foot and the ball last," and Frank Howard commented, "He threw everything at me but the ball.

Luis Tiant

#12. Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

Joseph Monninger

#13. Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

David McCullough

#14. Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid.

Bojan Markovic

#15. You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Karl Marx

#16. That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.

Jose Saramago

#17. People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

Charles Perrault