Top 100 Karl Quotes
#1. Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#2. People make their own history, as Karl Marx once memorably observed, but not under conditions of their own choosing.
Richard J. Evans
#3. Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful.
Jo Nesbo
#4. Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.
Robert Heilbroner
#5. Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries.
Kim Jong Il
#6. I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
Lana Del Rey
#7. Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that's more attractive than physical beauty.
Aidan Chambers
#8. The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.
Ludwig Von Mises
#9. Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.
David Plouffe
#10. The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
Albert Camus
#11. Karl remembered his great truth, learned in the project: Never pass by a chance to shut up.
Gregory Benford
#12. He looked as much like Karl as Cuddles Sakall resembled Argentina Rocca.
William Goldman
#13. Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl
Kelley Armstrong
#14. Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person ... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
Carine Roitfeld
#15. 1970, someone repeated to him something that Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas had said: "Life is walking on the wire; the rest is waiting in the wings.
Neile Adams McQueen
#16. Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#17. I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.
Arnold Kling
#18. Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.
Amy Ridenour
#19. Sometimes Karl, you have to realize your weeknesses and be willing to discuss them with adults.
Molly Maguire McGill
#20. Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
Noam Chomsky
#21. 1849 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels present, The Communist Manifesto, declaring "the abolition of private property.
Brian Sussman
#22. What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!
Stephen Colbert
#23. 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
#24. One of the most powerful and prophetic analysts was Karl Marx. He showed how work can alienate a person from their nature and potential. Certain work can dull and darken human presence ... the linear mind can miss its gift ... Perception is crucial to understanding.
John O'Donohue
#25. I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?
Charlie Chaplin
#26. The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.
John Ringo
#27. was far too young to be bugged, stalked, and murdered. I had never been to Bora Bora or finished In Search of Lost Time or run naked around the Washington Monument or gone skiing with Karl Lagerfeld. I had so much living to do.
Karin Tanabe
#28. Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.
Alan J. Heeger
#29. Taleb's hero, on the other hand, is Karl Popper, who said that you could not know with any certainty that a proposition was true;
Malcolm Gladwell
#30. On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.
Jerry Coleman
#31. And then what did you do, Lord Oliver? Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.
Jessica Day George
#32. If you've heard of Freezy Freakies gloves, Hans and Karl Reichstetter know this about you: You were probably born in the 1970s or early 1980s and you probably spent your childhood in the Northeast.
Anonymous
#33. Karl Barth once wittily remarked, One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#34. The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.
Isaac Deutscher
#35. One Is Never Over-Dressed OR Understand With A Little Black Dress By Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
#36. I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy
make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.
John F. Kerry
#37. We have to deal with a lot of things. One of them is we have to deal with fake conservatives that are bought-and-paid for by the Karl Rove establishment. Unfortunately, some in my area have recruited a primary opponent against me.
Matt Shea
#38. War, to be abolished, must be understood. To be understood, it must be studied." Karl Deutsch - preface of A Study of War by Quincy Wright. Added corollary by KMV: To abolish what is not understood is both arrogant and ignorant.
Karl Deutsch
#39. Fear of scholasticism is the mark of a false prophet. - KARL BARTH
R. Scott Clark
#40. Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy
Tyne O'Connell
#41. The socialist tradition ... goes back to Jesus Christ,
not (Karl) Marx.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#42. If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.
Eugene Mirman
#43. The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.
Donald M. MacKinnon
#44. I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system.
Lawrence Jackson
#45. Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate.
Harold Bloom
#46. Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.
Arizona Muse
#47. If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.
Larisa Alexandrovna
#48. On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention.
Rinko Kikuchi
#49. I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.
Marilynne Robinson
#50. The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
Irving Berlin
#51. If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
Adolf Hitler
#52. The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
Lewis H. Lapham
#53. I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.
Emma Watson
#55. I am so grateful to Marc Jacobs, Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld, and Katie Grand, who took a chance on me that first season and gave me an opportunity.
Kendall Jenner
#56. There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.
Howard Zinn
#57. President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.
Bill Maher
#58. Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
Edward O. Wilson
#59. Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions of the new proletariat. he sent Darwin a copy of 'Das Kapital' (which was found unread after his death).
Steve Jones
#60. I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.
Johnny Weir
#61. White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine.
Andy Borowitz
#62. Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noticin' that she'd left the river.
George R R Martin
#63. The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.
Robert Luskin
#64. People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
Ines De La Fressange
#65. Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.
Matt Taibbi
#66. Karl, oh my Karl!' she cried, as if by gazing at him she were confirming her possession, while Karl saw absolutely nothing and felt uncomfortable in the warm bedding that she seemed to have piled up specially for his benefit.
Franz Kafka
#67. 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?
Ken Follett
#68. Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.
Denis Healey
#69. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#70. Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.
Rebecca Ferguson
#71. Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.
David Limbaugh
#72. Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.
H.L. Mencken
#73. If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.
Niall Ferguson
#74. The Bible itself has a hundred theologies.
(Karl Barth, January 27, 1959 to English Colloquia in Basel)
Raymond Kemp Anderson
#75. I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
Ed Gillespie
#76. My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.
Nik Wallenda
#77. The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky in 1933.
Honor Harger
#78. Karl ached to stroke her, to explore her delicate features with his hand and reveal what the paltry candle light could not; the feel of her hair, the curvature of her neck, the warmth of her skin.
Jack Croxall
#79. I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.
Liberty Ross
#80. In addition, historical interpretations of this period in China have been shaped by Karl Marx's writings on this subject. Despite his anti-imperialist stance, Marx often uses racist expressions, such as "barbarous"and "hereditary stupidity," to describe Chinese culture and people.
Tonglin Lu
#81. [ ... ] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world. [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights
Kent Hovind
#82. The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
Muhammad Iqbal
#83. If I were a girl, I always like Chanel. It's so stylish and timeless. So I like Karl Lagerfeld a lot.
Tiesto
#84. 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
#85. I met with Karl Lagerfeld, and if you have those kind of connections, that takes you into that world and puts you on that level.
Emily Ratajkowski
#86. In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.
John Amaechi
#87. 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
#89. I would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
Wesley Clark
#90. Communism is what Karl Marx hoped could be an economic scheme for making industrialized nations take as good care of people, and especially of children and the old and disabled, as tribes and extended families used to do, before they were dispersed by the Industrial Revolution.
Kurt Vonnegut
#91. Karl Marx, Amaya liked to say, was the last great philosopher of the coal age; his workers were locked into a serflike condition. Had Marx witnessed the industrial explosion of the Oil Century and the rising standard of living it produced among ordinary workers, he might have written differently.
David Halberstam
#92. Are you coming now?" Griffin snapped.
Karl glanced over at him and smiled. "What's the magic word?"
Griffin stalked off, muttering a word under his breath.
"That's not it," Karl called after him.
Kelley Armstrong
#93. 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
#94. A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making.
"But you never complain."
'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.
LaVyrle Spencer
#95. I knew personally many figures in this novel: Harold Urey, who greeted me at the grad students reception at UCSD in 1963; Karl Cohen, my father-in-law;
Gregory Benford
#96. Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge to separate U-235 from U-238 was proportional to its length and to the fourth power of the peripheral speed of its rotor. Karl
Gregory Benford
#97. I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.
Karl Pilkington
#98. The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.
Robert Frost
#99. Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#100. 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
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