Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
“Lenin was to Karl Marx what Omar was to Mahomet. He translated faith into acts. He devised the practical methods by which… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The letters of Karl Marx make frequent reference to the violent quarrels between himself and his parents; the letters from Karl’s parents… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I tend to be a loner I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You could blame the… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“That's not what justice is," the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. "That's what Karl… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus,… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the government of the United States was behaving almost exactly as Karl Marx described a capitalist state: pretending neutrality to maintain… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The things they have done to us! The truths they have turned into lies! The ideals they have fouled and made vile.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead… — José Antonio Rivera Copy Share Image
“Jesus said: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the establishment of "free education for all children… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“What's a colony without its dusky natives? Where's the fun if they're all going to die off? Just a big chunk of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Obama’s claims about teachers and CEOs gets to a broader puzzle about how a capitalist society assigns rewards. At first glance, it… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Such risk aversion breeds its own failure. So deeply rooted is gentrification that Richard Florida has now modified his widely acclaimed thesis… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image