“Capital will not ignore a profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 percent profit will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 percent certain will produce eagerness; 50 percent, positive audacity; 100 percent will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 percent, and there is not a crimde at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged.” T.J. Dunning secretary general of the London Council of Trades 1854 quoted as a footnote by Karl Marx in Das Kapital