Karl Popper Quotes

Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

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.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Marxist ideology is wrong, but I have known many good people who are Marxists.

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.'

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

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.

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

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

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Discovering Marxism ... was like finding a map in the forest.

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

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.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

The Marxist theory of ideology is extremely contentious, not least because it is tied to socio-economic hypotheses that are no longer believable.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist