Top 100 Marx's Quotes

#1. He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #7876
#2. As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

Noam Chomsky

Marx's Quotes #14017
#3. When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

Alden Ehrenreich

Marx's Quotes #16749
#4. It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

Patricia Marx

Marx's Quotes #26871
#5. Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.

Ronald Reagan

Marx's Quotes #35121
#6. If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #35667
#7. Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?"
Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #36964
#8. Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.

Gideon Defoe

Marx's Quotes #44132
#9. Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #50156
#10. That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #64002
#11. A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.

Roberto Burle Marx

Marx's Quotes #84977
#12. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #100289
#13. Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.

Rachel Holmes

Marx's Quotes #115799
#14. Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over his bed, and when I came off of his bed with the used one after putting the new one in, Groucho said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.'

Elliott Gould

Marx's Quotes #123449
#15. I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #125481
#16. I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #133189
#17. It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

Richard Marx

Marx's Quotes #144352
#18. Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #154448
#19. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

Nina Simone

Marx's Quotes #159910
#20. Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Marx's Quotes #164630
#21. All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Marx's Quotes #167362
#22. Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations.

Eric Hobsbawm

Marx's Quotes #180848
#23. Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #184766
#24. 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

Marx's Quotes #192989
#25. 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

Marx's Quotes #209523
#26. 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

Marx's Quotes #216399
#27. I've always though Marx's view on religion was the one thing he got right. Faith is a crutch.'
'If you step on a land mine,' Akhmed said, the crutch becomes the leg.

Anthony Marra

Marx's Quotes #227170
#28. There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #239127
#29. If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #251481
#30. Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting

Patricia Marx

Marx's Quotes #257375
#31. Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #260299
#32. I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #261838
#33. Africa is God's country, and He can have it.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #274881
#34. Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #281977
#35. 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

Marx's Quotes #282849
#36. I laugh at the so-called 'practical' people and their wisdom. If one wants to live like a beast, it could naturally do, to turn its back on humanity's suffering and only care about its own pelt.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #289905
#37. I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #319209
#38. I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #359979
#39. I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #369200
#40. Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

Germaine Greer

Marx's Quotes #379069
#41. Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #416140
#42. She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #420611
#43. Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in his son's psychology.

Bertrand Russell

Marx's Quotes #431076
#44. I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

Richard Marx

Marx's Quotes #444083
#45. My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #446573
#46. Marx's scientific Messianism is itself of bourgeois origin. Progress, the future of science, the cult of technology and
of production, are bourgeois myths, which in the nineteenth century became dogma.

Albert Camus

Marx's Quotes #447883
#47. 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

Marx's Quotes #453997
#48. Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #455796
#49. If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

Harpo Marx

Marx's Quotes #463896
#50. How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #467788
#51. Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #471090
#52. I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #481127
#53. The brilliancy of Aristotle's genius is shown by this alone, that he discovered, in the expression of the value of commodities, a relation of equality. The peculiar conditions of the society in which he lived, alone prevented him from discovering what, "in truth," was at the bottom of this equality.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #499331
#54. European revolutions followed textbooks - Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, Karl Marx' Communist Manifesto or Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf - while Mexicans wrote their texts after the fighting was over.

Richard Grabman

Marx's Quotes #499957
#55. I hate London when it's not raining.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #501303
#56. The Christian coach keeps ethics in perspective by aligning his principles and values with his biblical worldview, endeavoring to see things from God's point of view.

Michael J. Marx

Marx's Quotes #519763
#57. Without the Ermen & Engels mill in Salford, owned by Friedrich Engels's textile-manufacturing father, the chronically impoverished Marx might well have not survived to pen polemics against textile manufacturers. Something

Terry Eagleton

Marx's Quotes #540568
#58. We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #596891
#59. Blood's not thicker than money.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #603668
#60. She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #607629
#61. I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #616801
#62. The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #631600
#63. 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

Marx's Quotes #631636
#64. In fact, the proposition that man's species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man's essential nature.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #643023
#65. Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #644775
#66. His mother's words faded to myth, concocted by a gentle soul to delight the imagination of a boy.

Until one day, they were no longer a myth. One day, he would wish he had never heard them at all because they spelled his happiness--and his eternal sorrow.

Natalia Marx

Marx's Quotes #671282
#67. What is important is that Marx's theory of history is a vision of human beings in a state of alienation. Human beings cannot be free if they are subject to forces that determine their thoughts, their ideas, their very nature as human beings.

Anonymous

Marx's Quotes #672735
#68. I know him by another name. His real one is Slem, not uncommon for men of his generation. It stands for Stalin Lenin Engels Marx. He's always making up new names for himself
wouldn't you?

Victor Robert Lee

Marx's Quotes #677690
#69. There's a man outside with a big black mustache. - Tell him I've got one.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #712440
#70. He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell hi.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #746137
#71. Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.

Rachel Holmes

Marx's Quotes #749003
#72. Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world ... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #764195
#73. Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #787068
#74. All moral relationships are indissoluble according to their concept, as one can easily convince one's self by postulating their truth. A true state, a true marriage, a true friendship, and indissoluble. But no state, no marriage, no friendship corresponds completely to its concept... (Karl Marx)

Eugene Kamenka

Marx's Quotes #807589
#75. Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man's self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #819127
#76. I see more people all the time feeling something growing from within them to more fully realize their heart's desire, their desire to give more, to be more, to do more.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Marx's Quotes #826843
#77. Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #838977
#78. But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

Harpo Marx

Marx's Quotes #848821
#79. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.

Michael J. Marx

Marx's Quotes #849017
#80. I know I'm not funny. I mean, let's face it, I'm no Groucho Marx. But if you're a guy, and you're watching late night television, are you gonna start jacking off to Groucho? I don't think so!

Sarah Silverman

Marx's Quotes #852355
#81. There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Marx's Quotes #854780
#82. Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #883137
#83. It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #903740
#84. The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

Richard Marx

Marx's Quotes #906941
#85. To complete our account of Marx's main ideas, therefore, we need to ask: what kind of society did Marx hope would take the place of capitalism? This question is easily answered in a single word: communism. It is difficult to answer it more adequately, that is, to say what Marx meant by communism.

Anonymous

Marx's Quotes #909299
#86. I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

Richard Marx

Marx's Quotes #918697
#87. [Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.

John Maynard Keynes

Marx's Quotes #920840
#88. I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed.
Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #931154
#89. Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

Joseph Goebbels

Marx's Quotes #936149
#90. Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

Karl Marx

Marx's Quotes #937564
#91. Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #960460
#92. In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or undeveloped countries; what is clear is that for humanity to have a decent future, it must come about.

Benjamin Kunkel

Marx's Quotes #961069
#93. Foucault thus provides a sophisticated, language-based version of the class antagonisms of Marx - he relies on beliefs about the inherent evil of the individual's class position, or professional position, seen as 'discourse', regardless of the morality of his or her individual conduct.

Christopher Butler

Marx's Quotes #961213
#94. Marx's main interest was in economic relationships since in his view they shape everything that we are and can become.

Nigel Warburton

Marx's Quotes #961719
#95. My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Yanis Varoufakis

Marx's Quotes #974646
#96. I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Marx's Quotes #975765
#97. [Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

Neil Kinnock

Marx's Quotes #984795
#98. Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins.

Terry Eagleton

Marx's Quotes #985308
#99. Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar"
Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change."
Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.

Groucho Marx

Marx's Quotes #989317
#100. One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

Patricia Marx

Marx's Quotes #1004148

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