Marx Quote by Manickam Nambi

“Unfortunately Marx said that the important thing is not to understand the world but to change it. Poor man, he got it the wrong…

— Malcolm Bradbury

I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways;…

— Noam Chomsky

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it”

— Karl Marx

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it,…

— J. M. Coetzee

“Learning the lessons of past victories, as well as defeats, can arm a new generation of fighters for a better world. As Karl Marx…

— Rebecca Solnit

Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that…

— Noam Chomsky

“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx

“If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.”

— Somerset Maugham

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

— Karl Marx

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic,…

— Che Guevara

“For Marx, society does not exist.”

— Michel Henry

“Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.”

— Marilynne Robinson