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The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious. -- Martin Freeman
There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian. -- Murray Rothbard
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. -- Clement Attlee
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. -- Noam Chomsky
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
Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso. -- Alice Cooper
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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 Marx and Lenin. -- Ronald Reagan
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. -- Al Capp
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. -- Jesse Ventura
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. -- Hannah Arendt
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. -- Mikhail Bakunin
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 force solely for the aggregate of these commodities. -- Rudolf Hiferding
The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence. -- Mikhail Bakunin
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.' -- Elliott Gould
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx. -- Aaron Siskind
Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. -- David Byrne
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 think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel. -- John Grierson
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household. -- Harpo Marx
I never read Karl Marx. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy. -- Walter Kerr
Strange is the influence of Marx on character. -- Christina Stead
Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx. -- Allen W. Wood
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist. -- Eric Hoffer
To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison. -- Glenn Beck
What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto! -- Stephen Colbert
The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. -- Albert Camus
The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk. -- Nina Simone
I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid. -- Michael Feldman
Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers. -- Winston Churchill
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I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist? -- Charlie Chaplin
I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it. -- Joseph Brodsky
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. -- Hannah Arendt
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great -- Clement Attlee
The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx. -- John Ringo
God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself. -- Eugene Ionesco
On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo. -- Jerry Coleman
Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy. -- Paul Sweezy
In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job! -- Yakov Smirnoff
Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period. -- Paul Sweezy
Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least. -- Jeffrey Tucker
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species -- E. O. Wilson
Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer. -- Rachel Holmes
We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable. -- Robert Heilbroner
Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law. -- Warren Beatty
The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl. -- Irving Berlin
M is for Marx And clashing of classes And movement of masses And massing of asses. -- Cyril Connolly
I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. -- George Jackson
As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events. -- Gunnar Myrdal
In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English. -- Erich Fromm
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics. -- Jose Bergamin
If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing. -- Niall Ferguson
Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash! -- George Lincoln Rockwell
National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin. -- Leon Trotsky
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. -- Hannah Arendt
Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people. -- Jo Walton
Can't the Marx Brothers be arrested and maybe even tortured for all the confusion and problems they've caused? -- Jack Handey
For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible. -- Ernest Mandel
Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously. -- Anne Meara
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not. -- Oswald Spengler
Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx . -- Joseph Goebbels
There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx. -- Allen W. Wood
Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for. -- Allen W. Wood
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx . -- John Maynard Keynes
What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes. -- Buster Keaton
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx. -- Ronald Reagan
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. -- Gore Vidal
For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom. -- Erich Fromm
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance. -- Bernard Crick
This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man. -- Erich Fromm
I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers. -- Spike Jonze
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. -- Dean Koontz
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly. -- Muhammad Iqbal
[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did. -- Neil Kinnock
[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations. -- John Carroll
Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke! -- Jim Cummings
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. -- Theodore White
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts. -- Denis Healey
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. -- John Lithgow
[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that. -- Alden Ehrenreich
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped. -- Pankaj Mishra
Marx himself wrote that capitalism produces above all its own gravediggers. Do you think that perhaps he wasn't talking about capitalism? -- Paullina Simons
For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. -- Steve Jobs
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people. -- Thomas Szasz
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. -- Vladimir Lenin
We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. -- Mao Zedong
Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away. -- N.D. Wilson
When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage. -- Wilhelm Liebknecht
Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist. -- Friedrich Engels
Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible. -- Diego Rivera
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. -- Robert Frost
Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine. -- Marshall McLuhan
President Obama inherited a one trillion dollar deficit courtesy of George Bush and turned it into a three trillion dollar deficit courtesy of Karl Marx! -- Michael Savage
A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head. -- Milton Friedman
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
I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields. -- Woody Allen
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. -- Albert Camus
Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. -- Vladimir Lenin
Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society. -- Charles A. Reich
I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy. -- Marilyn Monroe
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
Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production. -- Ronald Reagan
Footman. Karl Marx, living in chronic indebtedness in Soho and often barely able to put food on the table, employed a housekeeper and a personal secretary. -- Bill Bryson
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism . -- David Harvey
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx. -- H. G. Wells
This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe. -- John Henrik Clarke
The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
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 his -- Tony Benn
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 FANCY YOU! -- Eddie Izzard
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. -- Dario Fo
The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes. -- Terry Eagleton
I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions. -- Murray Bookchin
I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy. -- Kurt Vonnegut

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