Famous quotes containing the words karl marx, jewish, question and/or marx:
“Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.”
—Clement Attlee (18831967)
“I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good directionthe Messiah.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less. The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things. The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be masterthats all.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Youre just wasting your breath and thats no great loss either!”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, a wisecrack made to his fellow stowaway Chico Marx (1931)