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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#6. If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#9. Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in.
Groucho Marx
#10. That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus
Groucho Marx
#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
#12. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#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
#17. It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
Richard Marx
#18. Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl.
Groucho Marx
#19. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.
Nina Simone
#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
#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
#23. Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#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
#28. There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#33. Africa is God's country, and He can have it.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#37. I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
Groucho Marx
#38. I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#41. Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!
Groucho Marx
#42. She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#45. My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#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
#50. How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.
Groucho Marx
#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
#52. I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#60. She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.
Groucho Marx
#61. I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#65. Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#69. There's a man outside with a big black mustache. - Tell him I've got one.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#73. Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#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
#77. Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
Karl Marx
#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
#79. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Michael J. Marx
#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
#81. There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#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
#83. It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#86. I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
Richard Marx
#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
#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
#89. Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .
Joseph Goebbels
#90. Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.
Karl Marx
#91. Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.
Groucho Marx
#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
#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
#94. Marx's main interest was in economic relationships since in his view they shape everything that we are and can become.
Nigel Warburton
#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
#96. I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#97. [Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
Neil Kinnock
#98. Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins.
Terry Eagleton
#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
#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
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