My series of quotes from the economics writers of yore has not been as prolifically posted as I originally desired.  After starting in on Keynes’ General Theory, I decided I was skipping ahead and that I should put that book down and take up Das Kapital first.  The aim being to read the classics of economics, insofar as the layperson would know about them, in chronological order.  So I give you, the reader, the first quote from Marx that really stands out as quipworthy:

It is very characteristic that the enthusiastic apologists of the factory system have nothing more damning to urge against a general organisation of labor in society than that it would turn the whole of society into a factory.

Of course. one wonders if the original German is just as or more biting than the English.  Perhaps that’s an investigation for another day.