Jewish Question/karl Marx

Famous quotes containing the words karl marx, jewish, question and/or marx:

    “From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical
    Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class.... I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says “there is no wisdom without leisure.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.”
    —John King Fairbank (1907–1991)

    “The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)