Capital Conflict Quotes

The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

There is and always has been in an advanced stage of wealth and civilization, a conflict between labor and capital.

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

Capital and labor are just as harmonious as roast beef and a hungry stomach.

Labor and capital may be partners in theory, but they are enemies in fact.