Marx Quotes

151 Marx quotes by 130 unique authors

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of… — Steven Pinker
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands… — Ronald Reagan
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. — John Ralston Saul
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far… — Will Self
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China… — Daniel Yergin
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts… — Aldous Huxley
The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl. — Irving Berlin
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a… — Kurt Vonnegut
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. — Hannah Arendt
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those… — Boris Pasternak
Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to… — Haruki Murakami
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it… — Warren Buffett
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a… — William Golding
Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I… — Eddie Izzard
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We… — Iris Murdoch
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species — E. O. Wilson
Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything… — Bill Watterson
This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,… — John Steinbeck
I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never… — Groucho Marx
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by… — Anchee Min
Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment,… — Daniel Suarez
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk. — Nina Simone
What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto! — Stephen Colbert

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