Philosophy Quotes

"The philosopher and the farmer must sit together if society is to prosper."

"Marxism teaches us the analysis of class society. It teaches us that the proletariat is the class that liberates humanity."

"Materialism is a poison that must be purged from the human spirit."

"What do you see when you look at me, a man or a ghost of the future?"

"The struggle of opposites is the basic law of the development of things."

"The people, not things, are the primary factor."

"Human history progresses through contradiction."

"The spirit of Ubuntu teaches us that we are all connected."

"A society without moral compass is a society adrift."

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

"Capitalism is doomed because it cannot tolerate competition, even within itself."

"Capitalism sanctifies greed and turns humans into machines."

"A revolution without ideology is merely a change in personnel."

"The consciousness of a man determines his condition, not his condition his consciousness."

"The consciousness of a human being is not determined by his beard."

"The dialectic imagination, in my opinion, is the highest form of thinking."

"The philosophy of a nation reveals itself in its treatment of the poorest."

"Philosophy without practice is sterile; practice without philosophy is blind."

"Philosophy that ignores material conditions is mere fantasy."

"Pan-Africanism is a philosophy of life that must guide our continent."

"We are the products of our history, but we are not imprisoned by it."

"The African personality must be reasserted in all aspects of life."

"We must respect all religions while building a secular state."

"Our revolution is informed by international socialist ideals."

"We build institutions based on reason and the interests of the people."

"The struggle of opposite forces in things is absolute, but the methods of struggle are relative."

"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."

"Everywhere death is found in a corpse, but everywhere a beginning is found in death."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please."