“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.” — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution… — Winston Churchill 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
“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live… — Jeff Goins 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
This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx,… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing” — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In The Ecology of Freedom, my critique of what is called civilization and industrial society is massive, and my attack upon [Karl]… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“While Karl Marx made some perceptive pronouncements about the value of books, it was the wiser Marx, Groucho, who observed that “outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[…] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work"… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“It is conceivable that not knowing the meaning of life is part of the meaning of life, rather as not counting how… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The Bolshevik Revolution, which had happened only a quarter century earlier, had in contrast involved the embrace of concentrated authority as a… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Many also forget that the international campaign in solidarity with the Union under the Lincoln presidency rallied at a time when it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses'. Buddhism, particularly as it is popularly practiced, promises improvement through karma. Islam… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
“Till now philosophers have tried to understand the world,The point however to change it.Karl Marx” — Manickam Nambi Copy Share Image
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the… — Al Capp 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
Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs… — Dick Armey 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
“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
“1849 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels present, The Communist Manifesto, declaring “the abolition of private property.” — Brian Sussman Copy Share Image
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
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 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
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
There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Learning the lessons of past victories, as well as defeats, can arm a new generation of fighters for a better world. As… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image