--- title: "4 Norman Geras Quotes - Famous Philosopher (Marx and human nature: refutation of a legend)" description: "Norman Geras was a political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Manchester. Browse 4 Norman Geras quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b061/author-norman-geras-71060.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Norman Geras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b061/author-norman-geras-71060.jpg) # Norman Geras (1943–2013) Philosopher **4** quotes in **39** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Norman Geras was a philosopher, best known for *Marx and human nature: refutation of a legend*. ## Quick Facts About Norman Geras Born August 25, 1943 Died October 18, 2013 Profession Philosopher Notable works Marx and human nature: refutation of a legend ## About Norman Geras Norman Geras was a political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Manchester. He contributed to an analysis of the works of Karl Marx in his book Marx and Human Nature and the article "The Controversy About Marx and Justice". His "Seven Types of Obloquy: Travesties of Marxism", appeared in the Socialist Register in 1990. ## Quotes by Norman Geras > [“Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, because what the US…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-geras/such-impulses-have-displayed-themselves-very-widely-across-left-and/) [Norman Geras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-geras/) [Anti-americanism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anti-americanism-9315/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/norman-geras-71060_anti-americanism_such-impulses-have-displayed-themselves_564785.png) > [If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-geras/if-the-argument-is-that-failure-helps-you-succeed-well-so-does/) [Norman Geras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-geras/) [Argument](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/argument/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ab/norman-geras-71060_argument_if-the-argument-is-that-failure-helps-yo_2103778.png) > [“Marx - like everyone else - did reject certain ideas of human nature; but he also regarded some as being true. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-geras/marx-like-everyone-else-did-reject-certain-ideas-of-human-nature-but/) [Norman Geras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-geras/) [Human nature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-nature/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed0/norman-geras-71060_human-nature_marx-like-everyone-else-did-reject-certa_2416874.png) > [If there is no truth, there is no injustice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-geras/if-there-is-no-truth-there-is-no-injustice/) [Norman Geras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-geras/) [Funny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funny/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ba/norman-geras-71060_funny_if-there-is-no-truth-there-is-no-injusti_2470497.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-geras/#itemlist", "name": "Norman Geras Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, because what the US government and its allies do, whatever they do, has to be opposed—and opposed however thuggish and benighted the forces which this threatens to put your anti-war critic into close company with. For some, because of an uncontrollable animus towards George Bush and his administration. For some, because of a one-eyed perspective on international legality and its relation to issues of international justice and morality. Whatever the case or the combination, it has produced a calamitous compromise of the core values of socialism, or liberalism or both, on the part of thousands of people who claim attachment to them. You have to go back to the apologias for, and fellow-travelling with, the crimes of Stalinism to find as shameful a moral failure of liberal and left opinion as in the wrong-headed—and too often, in the circumstances, sickeningly smug—opposition to the freeing of the Iraqi people from one of the foulest regimes on the planet.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Norman Geras" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-geras/such-impulses-have-displayed-themselves-very-widely-across-left-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/norman-geras-71060_anti-americanism_such-impulses-have-displayed-themselves_564785.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/norman-geras-71060_anti-americanism_such-impulses-have-displayed-themselves_564785.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/norman-geras-71060_anti-americanism_such-impulses-have-displayed-themselves_564785.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. 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