Marxian Quotes

#1. Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.

Robert Nozick

#2. Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

Ameen Rihani

#3. Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

Jackie Kennedy

#4. When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Shakti Gawain

#5. Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#6. Any serious analysis of Marxism must begin with the controversy over whether he is a humanist champion of free will or a determinist. Because Marxian writings on the subject often are so contradictory, it is impossible to know for sure.

Kenneth Deutsch

#7. The very same 'mystery' that veils the human person from the neurophysiologist veils human history from the Marxian determinist and human morality from the sociobiologist.

Roger Scruton

#8. The buttons on her back gave way as if before a Mongol horde.

Sherry Thomas

#9. For some reason, I kept seeing it - it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina - a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. His own reasons, and I had the unmistakable feeling - it buzzed

Ann Aguirre

#11. German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Ludwig Von Mises

#12. Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#13. A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Robert Anton Wilson

#14. The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist approach to understanding phallocratic domination.

Nancy Hartsock

#15. Marxian thought, King argued, should challenge Christians to express their own "passion and concern for social justice".

Troy Jackson

#16. Invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to meet our own unique destiny.

Paulo Coelho

#17. God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no ... Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.

Richard Rohr

#18. For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.
(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

John Calvin

#19. Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

Robert Kuttner

#21. To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

Chris Cornell

#22. Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

Eric Hobsbawm

#23. First, the processes making for 'spatial equilibrium' - broadly spelled out in bourgeois location theory - are, from the Marxian perspective to be seen as part and parcel of the processes which lead to crises of accumulation.

Anonymous

#24. No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#25. The Bible is the most important part of your faith.

Elizabeth George