I like Gramsci. He’s an important person.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

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