Polycarp used to dazzle youngsters with tales of heroic…

“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,…

— Irwin Shaw

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

— Niall Ferguson

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means…

— Ronald Reagan

I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the…

— George Ritzer

“The pattern of vicious circle depicted by the transition between Haile Selassie and Mengistu, or between the British colonial governors of Sierra Leone and…

— Daron Acemoğlu

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

— Charlie Chaplin

“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to political theorists…

— Nicholas Wade

“Jesus said: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has come into…

— Osho

Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed…

— Anchee Min

“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead of pursuing…

— José Antonio Rivera

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a…

— Erich Fromm

“Pharaohs It took Khufu twenty-three years to build his Great Pyramid at Giza, where some eleven hundred stone blocks, each weighing about two and…

— Daniel Quinn

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write…

— Jeff Goins

After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by his theory…

— Murray Bookchin