Quotes - Wassim Ayoub (Beirut, 04, Lebanon) Showing 1-13 of 13

#1

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

tags: apathy, capitalism, inevitability, inspirational, marxism, resistance, socialism

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#2

“Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

tags: activism, apathy, apolitical, determinism, historical-determinism, history, marxism, politics

36 likes

#3

“... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism....”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

tags: capitalism

30 likes

#4

“Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

tags: history, marxism, politics, revolution

22 likes

#5

“It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

tags: anti-capitalism, capitalism, criticisms-of-marxism, future, futures-exchange, marxism, utopianism

12 likes

#6

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

tags: common-sense, perspective, philosophers

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#7