Marx Quotes
151 Marx quotes by 130 unique authors
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The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
— Albert Camus
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Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if…
— Noam Chomsky
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It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in…
— Tony Benn
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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology…
— Tony Benn
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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as…
— Milan Kundera
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Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of…
— Leon Trotsky
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
— Clement Attlee
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The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played…
— Winston Churchill
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They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke…
— Noah Baumbach
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Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
— Noam Chomsky
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I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid.
— Michael Feldman
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I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when…
— Joshua Malina
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I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.
— Chen Guangbiao
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
— Walter Kerr
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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict:…
— Bruce Jackson
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It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in…
— Rudolf Hiferding
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My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself…
— John Grierson
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In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price.…
— Stephen Bayley
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The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
— Steve Forbes
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Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the…
— David Zucker
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Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History,…
— Eugene Ionesco
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