Karl Marx Quotes

But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?

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• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Words
  • English

• Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Beautiful
  • Moment
  • Beard

• Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

  

  Tabitha King
  • People
  • Eye
  • Understand

• I'm not a very fast-paced person.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Person
  • Very
  • Fast-Paced

• Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

  

  Larry Niven
  • Long
  • Know
  • Doing

• When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Place
  • Homeless

• Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Success
  • Right

• The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Problem
  • Years
  • Last

• I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Clever

• I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Queen

• The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Act
  • Contemplation
  • Then

• Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Together
  • Health
  • Insurance

• If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Live
  • Environment

• Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Family
  • Trust
  • Betrayal

• The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul
  • Ambition
  • Greatness

• Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Life
  • Children
  • Knowledge

• I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People

• With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

  

  Jess Walter

• The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.

  

  James Bernard Frost
  • Done
  • Education
  • College

• Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Conscious
  • Hip Hop
  • Rock N Roll

• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Unusual
  • Itself
  • Alaska

• Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Water

• But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?

  

  Karl Marx