Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.


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KARL MARX
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen...
KARL MARX
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
KARL MARX
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
KARL MARX
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
KARL MARX
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
KARL MARX
I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be i...
KARL PILKINGTON
With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads...
KARL PILKINGTON
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &...
KARL PILKINGTON
It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
KARL PILKINGTON
I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
KARL PILKINGTON
I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
KARL PILKINGTON
The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head s...
KARL PILKINGTON
We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry ...
KARL PILKINGTON
But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
KARL PILKINGTON
For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
KARL PILKINGTON
Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people abou...
KARL PILKINGTON
Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
KARL PILKINGTON
A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
KARL PILKINGTON
I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding...
KARL PILKINGTON
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
KARL PILKINGTON
I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was...
KARL PILKINGTON
People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
KARL PILKINGTON
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
KARL PILKINGTON
They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just...
KARL PILKINGTON
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
KARL PILKINGTON
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
KARL MARX
Statistics is the grammar of science.
KARL PEARSON
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come...
KARL LAGERFELD
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ...
KARL ROVE
You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy ha...
KARL ROVE
Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
KARL ROVE
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflatio...
KARL ROVE
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'def...
KARL ROVE
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Na...
KARL ROVE
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiven...
KARL ROVE
Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
KARL ROVE
Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the presi...
KARL ROVE
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York ...
KARL ROVE
I believe in traditional marriage.
KARL ROVE
Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10...
KARL ROVE
And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my M...
KARL ROVE
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He...
KARL ROVE
The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elemen...
KARL ROVE
Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama qu...
KARL ROVE
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
KARL ROVE
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager...
KARL ROVE