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Quotes About Marx

Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Marx's life had been filled with such abundance that he was one of those people who found it natural to care for those around him.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
This is the most violent poetry game I've ever played,' Marx said.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She understood neither the conventions of Noh nor the language. Marx would occasionally whisper poetic, cryptic commentary into her ear: "The fisherman's ghost was killed for fishing in the wrong river." Or "The drum is silent, and the gardener is killing himself.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No, this is a great game. That's Cobainus. The eleven stars of Cobainus form a fuzzy grandma sweater," Marx said.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Marx was a prodigious reader, and he felt like Sadie might be the kind of book that one could read many times, and always come away with something new.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Friendship," Marx said, "is kind of like having a Tamagotchi." Tamagotchis, the digital pet keychains, were everywhere that year.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Marx era un lettore prodigioso e Sadie gli sembrava quel genere di libro che si può leggere e rileggere molte volte, scoprendo sempre qualcosa di nuovo
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Marx, should you take a weapon?" This is the question of a serious gamer. A gamer should never enter a potential combat situation without checking one's inventory and confirming the availability of a weapon.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Friends, Romans, countrymen,' Marx said, 'calm down.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Marx stepped into history as the coauthor of the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Capitalism, he said, stood for the rule of human products over human communities. It gained power, grew out of control, constrained human expectations, and blighted the lives of the overwhelming majority, the working-class proletariat. Communism was precisely the abolition of capitalist tyranny and liberation from it.
~ Gary J. Dorrien
And Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, Marx judged, was "the most important document in American history since the establishment of the Union.
~ Bruce Levine
The Communist Party and Karl Marx were names I had picked up on since coming to Blantyre, so I read what I could on the subject. The very last English essay I wrote in May 1961, before leaving school, was a biographical sketch of Karl Marx together with a synopsis of The Communist Manifesto, outlining Marx and Frederick Engels's views of revolution as a consequence of the class struggle.
~ stuart christie
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
~ Noam Chomsky
I'm a socialist. I know Marx and communism did not work before, but I think in the future you have the possibility of having total communism and equal access to everything for everybody.
~ Peter Sunde
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
~ Shimon Peres
The headmaster thought he was possessed by the devil because he recited Marx in German during mass. A clear sign of possession, Fermin agreed.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Denying the necessary role of the creative mind as expressed in capital and technology, Marx ended up vindicating the zero-sum vision of anti-Semitic envy, in which bankers, capitalists, arbitrageurs, shopkeepers, entrepreneurs, and traders are deemed to be parasitical shysters and dispensable middlemen.
~ George Gilder
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 need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
~ Iris Murdoch
Darwin and Karl Marx didn't reveal the secret of the world. Of all the theories about creation, the one expounded in Genesis is the most intelligent. All this talk about primordial mists or the Big Bang is a wild absurdity. If someone found a watch on an island and said it had been made by itself or that it developed through evolution, he would be considered a lunatic. But according to modern science, the universe evolved all on its own. Is the universe less complicated than a watch?
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer