John Maynard Keynes Quotes

[Referring to Karl Marx:] ... the prince of muddleheads.

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

For [Karl] Marx, science was a creative, historic and revolutionary force.

Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion — how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.

Karl Marx is not a very popular figure any more but once in a while he said something very sensible.

Marxism does not make sense, and I am the first one to say this

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history.

Marx never saw an electric light bulb.

Marx is the prophet of globalized capitalism.

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

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.

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.