Marxian's Quotes

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

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Sam Levenson

#3. So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? ... I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

Colin Powell

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Alan Dershowitz

#7. 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

#8. And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.

Stephen Fry

#9. It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Troy Jackson

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff with meaningless activity. Everything is disposable, including your relationships
especially your your relationships.

Rick Yancey

#14. We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

Albert Einstein

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#18. 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

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

Robert Nozick