The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labor, and the greater skills, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labor…

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their self-interests. We address ourselves not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities, but of their advantages.

Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc, necessary to give effect to labor.

Neither the farmer who cultivates the quantity of land which regulates price, nor the manufacturer who manufacture goods, sacrifice any portion of the produce for rent. The whole value of their commodities is divided into to two portions only; one constitutes the profits of stock, the other the wages of labor.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another…

But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population, its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths.

A thief orients his action to the validity of the criminal law in that he acts surreptitiously. The fact that the order is recognized as valid in his society is made evident by the fact that he cannot violate it openly without punishment.

Action, especially social action which involves social relationships, may be oriented by the actors to a belief in the existence of a “legitimate order”. The probability that action will actually empirically be so oriented will be called the “validity” of the order in question.

…since there is nothing in civilization which presents this moral criterion, civilization is morally indifferent. If then, the division of labor had no other role than to render civilization possible, it would participate in the same moral neutrality.

Of all the elements of civilization, science is the only one which under certain conditions, presents a moral character. That is, societies are tending more and more to look upon it as a duty for the individual to develop his intelligence by learning the scientific truths which have been established.

Individuals know what is in their best interest, let them choose his own employment.

Competition put a break on exorbitant prices.

The division of labor maybe due to our natural propensity to barter or exchange.

The law of supply and demand is a self-regulating mechanism.

Free trade is the solution to the problem of rising costs of grain.

Landlords benefit more from a closed economy.

Landlords receive differential rent.

The laborers are addicted to the domestic delights of society.

We should abolish the private property of the bourgeoisie.

Workers have nothing to lose but their chains.

The capitalists create its own gravediggers.

Religion as an opiate of the masses will not be missed.

There is order when people think that the rules governing their behavior is legitimate.

Charismatic authority is based on affectual attitudes.

Peaceful conflict is a conflict without physical violence.

Self-interest can guarantee the existence of conventions.

Function refers to the relationship between a movement and the needs its supply the organism.

More advanced societies have more incidences of criminality.

We like those who are like us and those who are not like us.

The division of labor in society forges social solidarity.